Title Freedom 7 : The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr Author(s) Burgess, Colin Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014. Description XXVII, 266 p. 190 illus : online resource Abstract Note Inevitably, there are times in a nation???s history when its hopes, fears and con???dence 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 con???nes 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 ???ight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration. This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering ???ight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print. Although beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard???s history-making mission aboard Freedom 7 nevertheless provided America???s ???rst tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts ??? including Alan Shepard ??? walk on the Moon ISBN,Price 9783319011561 Keyword(s) 1. Aerospace engineering 2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics 3. ASTRONAUTICS 4. ASTRONOMY 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. HISTORY 8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 9. Popular Science in Astronomy 10. SPACE SCIENCES 11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I08442     On Shelf