9781896522807

Freedom 7

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ISBN13: 9781896522807

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CD-ROM and Book. Project Mercury, America's first manned space flight program, was orchestrated by NASA's Space Task Group and included suborbital and then orbital flights using the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The period from NASA's inception in late 1958 until Shepard's flight in the spring of 1961 was a time of concentrated activity, much of it breaking new ground, both technologically and medically. From concept to concrete results in a mere two and a half years -- a truly remarkable achievement. Alan Shepard was chosen from the 'Mercury Seven' -- the seven original astronauts selected from all applicants -- to fly Freedom 7 into history. The professionalism and apparent confidence with which he performed made him an early astronaut role model. This book gathers together in one place the rare documents and drawings of the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission -- the flight of Freedom 7. Presented herein are transcripts and documents from the NASA archives, from a time before the assimilation and reporting of mission data was a developed process. The CD-ROM features: The NASA video documentary Freedom 7, video from the Freedom 7 earth-sky camera, video of the Freedom 7 instrument panel, videos of post-flight press activities, and more.

ISBN-13

9781896522807

ISBN-10

1896522807

Weight

0.90 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 0.50 x 9.25 In

List Price

$18.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc.

Published On

2001-05-01



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