Freedom 7 (Record no. 92597)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783319011561
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1
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Classification number TL787-4050.22
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Subject category code TRP
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Subject category code TEC002000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 629.1
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Burgess, Colin.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Freedom 7
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Colin Burgess.
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Extent XXVII, 266 p. 190 illus.
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Series statement Springer Praxis Books
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note History and Development of the Mercury-Redstone Program -- The Precursory Flight of Chimpanzee Ham -- NASA’s First Space Pilot -- Countdown to Launch -- Liftoff of Freedom 7 -- Fifteen Minutes That Stopped a Nation -- Splashdown.
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Summary, etc Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7. On that historic day, U.S. Navy Commander Alan Shepard carried with him the hopes, prayers, and anxieties of a nation as his Redstone rocket blasted free of the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, hurling him upwards on a 15-minute suborbital flight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration. This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering flight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print. Although beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard’s history-making mission aboard Freedom 7 nevertheless provided America’s first tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts – including Alan Shepard – walk on the Moon.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science
General subdivision History.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astrophysics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronomy.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronautics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science in Astronomy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of Science.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783319011554
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Uniform title Springer Praxis Books
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1
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