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Captain Chesley Sully Sullenberger, who was hailed a hero after piloting the US Airways flight that landed on the Hudson River in January of last year, is retiring. Sullenberger will fly his final flight Wednesday afternoon with his co-pilot during the Hudson landing, First Officer Jeff Skiles.
Mercury Redstone 3 (MR-3, also designated Freedom 7) was the first flight of an American rocket with a human on board (Alan B. Shepard, Jr.), occurring twenty-three days after Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight of Vostok 1.fter splashdown, the Mercury capsule and its pilot were returned by helicopter to the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain. Just three weeks following this first successful manned mission, President Kennedy addressed Congress and set the nations goal to send a man successfully to the Moon and back.