Freedom 7 [electronic resource] : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. / Colin Burgess.
2013
TL789.8.U6
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Title
Freedom 7 [electronic resource] : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. / Colin Burgess.
ISBN
9783319011561 electronic book
3319011561 electronic book
9783319011554
3319011561 electronic book
9783319011554
Published
Cham : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 266 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1 doi
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TL789.8.U6
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.45/40973
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.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 1, 2013).
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Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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