On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...
In the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviets had already taken an early ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into ...
On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...