<![CDATA[Comentarios al libro: FREEDOM 7]]> Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7. On that historic day, U.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.

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.

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.]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:09:06 +0000 es Copyright 2021 BiblioEteca Technologies SL