| 書目名稱 | Freedom 7 | | 副標(biāo)題 | The Historic Flight | | 編輯 | Colin Burgess | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/349/348005/348005.mp4 | | 概述 | Tells the almost forgotten story of the first manned U. S. spaceflight, Freedom 7, flown by Cdr. Alan Shepard, Jr., for NASA and the United States.Based on exclusive interviews with Shepard and severa | | 叢書名稱 | Springer Praxis Books | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 | | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Alan Shepard; First American in Space; First Suborbital Flight; Freedom 7; Mercury Program; Mercury Space | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-01155-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-01156-1 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 |
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