Status
Suborbital
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Freedom 7
Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight and was piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury, the objective of which was to put an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and return him safely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,830.0 kg
Suborbital
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
Mercury-Redstone
5th mission
3rd mission of 1961
4th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission