On May 5, 1961, a
Redstone rocket supplied by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville lifted
off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying Alan Shepard in a Mercury spacecraft,
nicknamed "Freedom 7." Shepard rose to an altitude of almost 116
miles and covered a range of more than 300 miles on a suborbital flight that
lasted less than 15 minutes.
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