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Inevitably there are times in a nation s history when its hopes fears and con dence 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 con nes of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7 On that historic day U. Freedom inc book 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 ight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration. Freedom 7 space capsule This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering ight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story including Shepard himself with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print. Freedom 7 flag Although beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard s history making mission aboard Freedom 7 nevertheless provided America s rst tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts including Alan Shepard walk on the Moon Freedom 7 The Historic Flight of Alan B Shepard Jr.