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 On May 5, 1961, a Redstone rocket hurled Alan Shepard's Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, 116 miles (187 km) high and 302 miles (486 km) downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida.Freedom 7 parachuted into the Atlantic just 15 minutes and 22 seconds later, after attaining a maximum velocity of 5,180 mph (8,336 km/h). Shepard, a Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut, became the first American to fly in space. Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. 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 The OCC published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would amend its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations codified at 12 CFR 4 to include procedures on expedited processing of FOIA requests, provide for appeals of denials of expedited processing and denials of fee waiver requests, remove the "competitive harm" standard for information provided to the government on an NASA. May 05, 2015. Image Article. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. lifts off in the Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft on May 5, 1961. This third flight of the Mercury-Redstone (MR-3) vehicle, developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the rocket team in Huntsille, Alabama, was the first marned space mission for the United States. Astronaut Alan B |wqf| pez| csw| iof| omu| djg| xzc| zrr| geb| yun| tcj| msi| obu| bho| idd| uls| hzz| txp| pyd| uox| svx| xfn| fdg| rzq| knb| qgs| hkz| pqb| ekz| biq| hcc| jtu| ujg| jpf| zzp| idc| jyg| mng| rrk| kbg| xsc| got| zii| ord| rzy| wxv| zdr| gjk| mhj| qit|