Mercury-Redstone 3
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mercury-redstone-3-190-644789
title:
Mercury-Redstone 3
text:
Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry. Shepard named his space c
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
First United States human spaceflight (1961)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3
date created:
2003-04-20T05:54:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:36:03Z
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