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New stamps salute Mercury astronaut Shepard, Messenger spacecraft
Florida Today Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, left, and Messenger, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, are on the new Forever postage stamps to be issued by the US Postal Service today at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. / AP/USPS What: First-Day-of-Issue … Space stamps honor 50 years of space flight USPS Commemorates Spaceflight Past and Present 50th anniversary Alan Shepard's first space flight |
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