Title Freedom 7 : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr Author(s) Colin Burgess Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 266 pages) : illustrations Abstract Note 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 Notes Includes index Keyword(s) 1. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. ENGINEERING 5. Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences 6. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 7. Popular Science in Astronomy 8. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General) Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click Here for the Online Book Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I02384     On Shelf