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02386aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 D51A27A03D6611E49555ADB2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140916010057 008 130907t20142014sz a b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3319011553 020 $a 9783319011554 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d MRB $d KUK $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a TL789.8.U6F7 $b B87 2014 100 1 $a Burgess, Colin, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Freedom 7 : $b the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. / $c Colin Burgess. 246 3 $a Freedom Seven 264 1 $a Cham : $b Springer, $c [2014] 300 $a xxvii, 266 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Springer-Praxis Books in space exploration 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a History and development of the Mercury-Redstone program -- The Mercury flight of chimpanzee Ham -- NASA's first space pilot -- Countdown to launch -- Fifteen minutes that stopped a nation -- Splashdown! -- A nation celebrates -- Epilogue. 520 $a 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. 610 20 $a Project Mercury (U.S.) 600 10 $a Shepard, Alan B. $q (Alan Bartlett), $d 1923-1998. 651 0 $a Outer space $x History. $z United States $x History. 600 17 $a Shepard, Alan B. $q (Alan Bartlett), $d 1923-1998. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01443007 610 27 $a Project Mercury (U.S.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00679411 650 7 $a Exploration of outer space. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353078 651 7 $a Outer space. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243437 830 0 $a Springer-Praxis books in space exploration. 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20140916010231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D51A27A03D6611E49555ADB2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search