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Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury . The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely.
Shepard in the Freedom 7 capsule before launch . Faced with intense competition from the other astronauts, particularly John Glenn, Shepard quit smoking and adopted Glenn's habit of taking a morning jog. [61] On January 19, 1961, Gilruth informed the seven astronauts that Shepard had been chosen for the first American crewed mission into space ...
May 5, 1961: Launch of Freedom 7 At 9:34 a.m., Alan Shepard became the first American in space as Mercury 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral . Shepard's spacecraft Freedom 7, first of the Mercury program , reached an altitude of 115 miles (185 km) without achieving orbit, and was recovered 19 minutes later by the aircraft carrier USS Lake ...
1961 April 12 USSR First human spaceflight mission (Yuri Gagarin) [2] First orbital flight of a manned vehicle Vostok 1: 1961 May 5 USA First pilot-controlled space flight (Alan Shepard) Freedom 7: 1961 May 19 USSR First planetary flyby , although contact was lost Venera 1 1961 August 6 USSR First crewed mission lasting a full day (Gherman Titov).
Sigma 7 [16] 10: Gordon Cooper United States: 15 May 1963: Faith 7 [17] 11: Valery Bykovsky Soviet Union: 14 June 1963: Vostok 5 [18] 12: Valentina Tereshkova Soviet Union: 16 June 1963: Vostok 6 [19] 13: Joseph Walker United States: 19 July 1963: X-15 Flight 90 [20] 14: Konstantin Feoktistov Soviet Union: 12 October 1964: Voskhod 1 [21 ...
May 2 – The Freedom 7 spacecraft is readied for a launch attempt which would have resulted in the first American human spaceflight; it is canceled due to poor weather and rescheduled for May 5. May 5 – Alan Shepard is launched on Freedom 7 on a sub-orbital spaceflight aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket, and
The first launch from the complex was a Jupiter-A on July 19, 1956 and the final launch was Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 capsule on July 21, 1961. [1] LC-5 is located next to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum which is located at LC-26. The original launch consoles and computers are on display in the LC-5 blockhouse.
The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster.It was used for six sub-orbital Mercury flights from 1960–1961; culminating with the launch of the first, and 11 weeks later, the second American (and the second and third humans) in space.