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F07_002_02

Date

May 1961

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Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Press releases, Space vehicles, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.), Rockets (Aeronautics)--Launching

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Language

eng

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5 MAY 1961 Cape Canaveral, Florida MR-3 Liftoff - Mercury-Redstone 3, the United States' first manned space flight, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. was the pilot of the Mercury spacecraft, designated "Freedom 7." The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour, reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statue miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaveral. NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration J.S. Government Printing Office: 1979 673-486 JSCL 199

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Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Press releases, Space vehicles, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.), Rockets (Aeronautics)--Launching

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