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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Colin, 1947- author.

Series:

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration

Springer-Praxis Books in space exploration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project Mercury (U.S.).

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

Shepard, Alan B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer [2013?]

Summary:

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

Contents:

History and development of the Mercury-Redstone program The Mercury flight of chimpanzee Ham NASA's first space pilot Countdown to launch Fifteen minutes that stopped a nation Splashdown! A Nation Celebrates Epilogue

Notes:

Includes index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 1, 2013)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783319011561

3319011561

3319011553

9783319011554

1306198690

9781306198691

OCLC:

860981754

Publisher Number:

YBP11204217

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license