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" Freedom 7 : "
Colin Burgess
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BL
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603900
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b433119
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| Main Entry
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Burgess, Colin,1947-
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| Title & Author
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Freedom 7 : : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. /\ Colin Burgess
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| Series Statement
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Springer-Praxis Books in space exploration
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xxvii, 266 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9783319011554
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: 3319011553
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| Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Abstract
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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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Shepard, Alan B., (Alan Bartlett),1923-1998
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Project Mercury (U.S.)
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Outer space, Exploration, United States, History
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| LC Classification
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TL789.8.U6F7B87 2014
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Freedom Seven
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