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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 return him safely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry.
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Mercury-Redstone_3
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 return him safely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry.
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Die Mission Mercury-Redstone 3 ...... Bord der U.S.S. Lake Champlain
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El Mercury Redstone 3 fue el c ...... 1 y su pasajero, Yuri Gagarin.
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El Mercury-Redstone 3, MR-3 o ...... ns orbitals dels dos següents.
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La missione Mercury-Redstone 3 ...... della missione dell'Apollo 14.
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Mercury 3 var NASA:s första be ...... ape Kennedy Air Force Station.
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Mercury MR-3 is de eerste bema ...... e vlucht van 2 ruimtevluchten)
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Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) s ka ...... ry připraveném agenturou NASA.
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Mercury-Redstone 3 est la prem ...... e lors de la mission Vostok 1.
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Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom ...... ute to this first U.S. flight.
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Freedom 7
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Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.
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Still frame of Alan Shepard taken by a motion picture camera aboard Freedom 7
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