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Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. by Colin Burgess

Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Colin Burgess
266 pages
Springer International Publishing
Sep 2013
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This book details the almost forgotten story of the first manned U. S. spaceflight, Freedom 7, flown by Cdr. Alan Shepard, Jr., for NASA. It examines the Mercury program and Shepard's flight in the context of the space race with the former USSR.
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