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题名/责任者:

Freedom 7 : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. / Colin Burgess.

出版发行项:

Cham : Springer, [2014]

ISBN:

9783319011554

ISBN:

3319011553

载体形态项:

xxvii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

变异题名:

Freedom Seven.

丛编说明:

Springer-Praxis Books in space exploration.

个人责任者:

Burgess, Colin, 1947-, author.

个人名称主题:

Shepard, Alan B.-(Alan Bartlett),-1923-1998.

团体名称主题:

Project Mercury (U.S.)

地理名称主题:

Outer space-Exploration-United States-History.

中图法分类号:

V4

一般附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

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.

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