Freedom 7 : the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
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Published
Cham : Springer, [2014].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxvii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Burgess, C. (2014). Freedom 7: the historic flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. . Springer.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burgess, Colin, 1947-. 2014. Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.. Springer.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burgess, Colin, 1947-. Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Springer, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Burgess, Colin. Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Springer, 2014.
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