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| Title: | Freedom 7
: The First US Manned Space Flight |
| Series: | (The NASA Mission Reports) |
| Author: | Robert Godwin (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1896522807 : 9781896522807 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x255mm |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Weight: | .42 Kg. |
| Published: | Apogee Books - September 2001 |
| List Price: | 15.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Space travel & exploration |
CD-ROM and Book. Project Mercury, America's first manned space flight program, was orchestrated by NASA's Space Task Group and included suborbital and then orbital flights using the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The period from NASA's inception in late 1958 until Shepard's flight in the spring of 1961 was a time of concentrated activity, much of it breaking new ground, both technologically and medically. From concept to concrete results in a mere two and a half years -- a truly remarkable achievement. Alan Shepard was chosen from the 'Mercury Seven' -- the seven original astronauts selected from all applicants -- to fly Freedom 7 into history. The professionalism and apparent confidence with which he performed made him an early astronaut role model. This book gathers together in one place the rare documents and drawings of the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission -- the flight of Freedom 7. Presented herein are transcripts and documents from the NASA archives, from a time before the assimilation and reporting of mission data was a developed process. The CD-ROM features: The NASA video documentary Freedom 7, video from the Freedom 7 earth-sky camera, video of the Freedom 7 instrument panel, videos of post-flight press activities, and more.
"I cannot recommend this book and the series highly enough..." -- Spaceflight, January 2001. "An in-depth examination of the man and the mission that began the space race..." -- The Observatory Magazine, June 2002. Reviewed in Astro, the Swedish Amateur Astronomical Society, June 2002.
