Freedom 7 The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. /

• Main Author: Burgess, Colin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; History of Science.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• History and Development of the Mercury-Redstone Program
• The Precursory Flight of Chimpanzee Ham
• NASA’s First Space Pilot
• Countdown to Launch
• Liftoff of Freedom 7
• Fifteen Minutes That Stopped a Nation
• Splashdown.