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'''Freedom 7''' also know as '''Mercury-Redstone 3''' was a spacecraft launched by [[NASA]] on May 5, 1961, using the [[Mercury-Redstone]] Rocket, carrying [[Alan Shepard]].<ref>http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mr-3/mr-3.htm</ref>  The Redstone launch vehicle (a modified [[Intercontinental ballistic missile|ballistic missile]]) on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight--a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range.

'''Freedom 7''' also know as '''Mercury-Redstone 3''' was a mission to launch the first american into space. The spacecraft was launched by [[NASA]] on May 5, 1961, using the [[Mercury-Redstone]] Rocket, carrying [[Alan Shepard]].<ref>http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mr-3/mr-3.htm</ref>  The Redstone launch vehicle (a modified [[Intercontinental ballistic missile|ballistic missile]]) on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight--a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range.

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