Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence 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 confines 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 flight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration
عنوان اصلی به زبان دیگر
عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر
Freedom Seven
نام شخص به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Shepard, Alan B., (Alan Bartlett),1923-1998
نام تنالگان به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Project Mercury (U.S.)
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Outer space, Exploration, United States, History
بدون عنوان
0
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
TL789
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8
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U6F7
نشانه اثر
B87
2014
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )