Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia
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 …
Mercury-Redstone 3: Freedom 7 - NASA
2023年9月26日 · The first U.S. human spaceflight on May 5, 1961, Mercury Redstone 3 was piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. The main scientific objective of project Mercury was to determine man's capabilities in a space environment and the …
First American In Space: The Flight of Alan B. Shepard
On May 5, 1961, a Redstone rocket hurled Alan Shepard’s Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, 116 miles high and 302 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Project Mercury - NASA
2024年6月18日 · Project Mercury was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space. Astronauts made a total of six spaceflights during Project Mercury. Two of those flights reached space and came right back down.
Project Mercury - A Chronology. Part 3 (A) - NASA
Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), designated the Freedom 7, the first Mercury manned suborbital flight, was launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Alan Shepard as the pilot. (See fig. 51.) The Redstone booster performed well during the boosted phase, although there were some vibrations, and cutoff was well within specified limits.
Mercury Redstone 3: Remembering the first crewed US space …
2021年5月4日 · By today's standards, Mercury Redstone 3 was a very simple suborbital mission, but in 1961 it was proof that the United States had mastered the technology to send a human being safely into space.
NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
Mercury Redstone 3 (MR-3, also designated Freedom 7) was the first flight of an American rocket with a human on board (Alan B. Shepard, Jr.), occurring twenty-three days after Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight of Vostok 1.
Mercury MR-3 Fact Sheet - Spaceline
Mercury MR-3 (NASA Code: Mercury 7/Freedom 7) Launch Date: May 5, 1961. Launch Time: 9:34 a.m. EST. Launch Site: Launch Complex 5/6, Launch Pad 5. Launch Vehicle: Mercury-Redstone-7 (MR-7) Capsule: Mercury Spacecraft Number 7. Capsule Nickname: Freedom 7. Back-up Crew: Glenn. Mission Duration: 15 Minutes, 22 Seconds. Number of Orbits: Suborbital.
Mercury Capsule MR-3, "Freedom 7" - National Air and Space Museum
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space in this Mercury capsule. He named it "Freedom 7," the number signifying the seven Mercury astronauts; NASA called the mission Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3). Lofted by a Redstone rocket, Shepard and his capsule attained a maximum speed of 5180 mph and rose to an altitude of 116 miles.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Went to Outer Space and Came …
2011年5月5日 · Astronaut Alan Shepard in his pressure suit, for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight, the first American manned space flight. On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became...