04020nam 22007095 450 991030037410332120220203233252.03-319-01156-110.1007/978-3-319-01156-1(CKB)3710000000025276(EBL)1466491(OCoLC)861559072(SSID)ssj0001010784(PQKBManifestationID)11640166(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001010784(PQKBWorkID)11003486(PQKB)11031958(MiAaPQ)EBC1466491(DE-He213)978-3-319-01156-1(PPN)172423635(EXLCZ)99371000000002527620130927d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFreedom 7[electronic resource] The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. /by Colin Burgess1st ed. 2014.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2014.1 online resource (291 p.)Space ExplorationDescription based upon print version of record.3-319-01155-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Space ExplorationAerospace engineeringAstronauticsAstronomySpace sciencesHistoryAerospace Technology and Astronauticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050Popular Science in Astronomyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030History of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000Aerospace engineering.Astronautics.Astronomy.Space sciences.History.Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.Popular Science in Astronomy.Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).History of Science.629.450092Burgess Colin1947-761860BOOK9910300374103321Freedom 71768726UNINA