Today is Alan B Shepard day.

[Riftmann]

Actual BBC article from the day- http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2504000/2504317.stm

Does anyone have a stock replica of the flight?

I imagine it's not very complicated...

[KvickFlygarn87]

Hm, I don't have one but I could A.B.S.olutely make one.

(...get it? Because his initials are "A.B.S."!)

[SkyRender]

It's not completely accurate, but...

I slapped together a quick copy, called the Moho 3 (using the MPLV, or Moho-Purplerock Launch Vehicle, as its booster stage).

[Thomas988]

I just made a pic as well. To avoid spam, here's the link to the thread I uploaded it on: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/78952-May-5th-1961

[Riftmann]

I did my first ever replica of a real spacecraft. Looks a lot like SkyRender's Moho-3 with the Purplerock. I did overdo the abort system though. I think using the midsize nosecone with 16 sepatrons was a bit much. (On test it lifted the pod up 1.5 km)

[Riftmann]

Since I somehow missed Yuri Gagarin Day on April 12th, I also launched Yuri Kerman into orbit after Alan B. Kerman. But I cheated and built the Vostok-1 from the Wiki.

Edit- I really need to download some soviet parts...

[astropapi1]

Hey Mulbin, over here!

[ZooNamedGames]

I've done the Freedom 7 flights many times! It's one of the simplest crafts to design and run. Granted, Science is limited heavily since you can't replicate such things as some that were required of later astronauts in the program.

However, when you try to do this flight with the RSS mod installed, using my craft WON'T work. The planet is too big and the atmosphere is too thick at normal level, but with stock non-FAR ksp (no deadly reentry, however if you added heat shields my craft would do fine) my craft works perfectly fine.