SLS Social Media Folks Need A History Lesson

#OTD in 1961, a Mercury-Redstone rocket launched @NASA astronaut Alan Shepard into orbit, making him the first American in space! http://pic.twitter.com/aX37JBwjdx

— NASA_SLS (@NASA_SLS) May 5, 2017

Keith's note: (sigh) This is something that anyone can Google. Its a little sad when an official NASA social media account - one followed by 75,000 people - strays outside of its intended topic and screws up Space History 101 so badly.

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