USA Today New stamps salute Mercury astronaut Shepard, Messenger spacecraftFlorida TodayMercury 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 …
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