sey . i , see 4 y pee 24 CAMEL, Gy oth MIE ei COLORFUL SPECTACLE — This is how Alan eye -Shepard’s amazing space flight appeared to witnesses today, as portrayed by an artist at Cape Canaveral. Drawings show the main phases of the record hop. At left is the complete assembly leaving the launching pad; left center, the vehicle, : By CAPE Howard — (AP) Fla. ter, capsule retrorocketing to slow flight; right, at 10,000 feet, the main parachute opens and Shepard and capsule come to rest gently on an inflated landing shock pad. Cmdr. Shepard reached an altitude of 115 miles. in hot experimental aircraft~ Benedict CANAVERAL, reaching the top of its powered flight; right cenand Steel- 3 “It’s a beautiful day,’ he told Marines on nerved Alan B. Shepard Jr. rode a rocket into the helicopter that plucked his space capsule out _as he looked down on the earth, and then dropped the earth and 302 miles southeast from the Cape space today, exclaimed, “What a beautiful sight” | to a safe landing in the Atlantic Ocean. '. To the the historic wiry, 37-year-old adventure Navy obviously commander, was no more frightening than many earlier flights he had made of the water after a soaring flight 115 miles above a | Canaveral launching pad. Then his nonchalance gave way to excite| oe ment'as he declared: ‘Man, what a ride!’ —_ See Page 3A, Col. 1