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Oct 23, 2013 Friendship 7 - Home - NASA The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the ocean. Most major systems worked smoothly, and the flight was a great success as an engineering feat. This Mercury-Atlas (MA) 6 mission also reestablished NASA and the U.S. as a strong contender in the space race with the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule | Space Jan 27, 2012
Crammed into this Mercury Space Capsule that he named Freedom 7, Shepard, a native of East Derry, New Hampshire, became the first American to travel in space. Clamped atop a Redstone rocket nearly 7 stories high, the capsule was blasted into sub-orbital flight that laid to rest any doubts that man could function in space—at least for a short
Project Mercury - Wikipedia Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union.Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using
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Launch of Freedom 7, the first American human spaceflight mission. Astronaut Alan Shepard flew on a suborbital lob on May 5, 1961. Prelaunch test of the later Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The original Mercury 7 astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9, 1959. Grady White 307 Freedom; 7 Pole Hardtop Rocket Launcher. Grady White 307 Freedom; 7 Pole Hardtop Rocket Launcher. Grady White 307 Freedom; 7 Pole Hardtop Rocket Launcher