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100 1 _aBurgess, Colin.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFreedom 7
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. /
_cby Colin Burgess.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXXVII, 266 p. 190 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringer Praxis Books
505 0 _aHistory 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.
520 _aInevitably, 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.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAstrophysics.
650 0 _aAstronomy.
650 0 _aAstronautics.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aAerospace Technology and Astronautics.
650 2 4 _aPopular Science in Astronomy.
650 2 4 _aExtraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSpringer Praxis Books
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1
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