{"product_id":"9783319011554","title":"Springer Praxis Books: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpringer Praxis Books: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBurgess, Colin\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence 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 confines of the tiny \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e spacecraft that he had named \u003ci\u003eFreedom 7\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 flight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering flight as recalled by many of the participants in the \u003ci\u003eFreedom 7\u003c\/i\u003e story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard’s history-making mission aboard \u003ci\u003eFreedom 7\u003c\/i\u003e nevertheless provided America’s first tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts – including Alan Shepard – walk on the Moon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2013-10-09\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319011554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-01156-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240cm x168cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 266\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46915394830476,"sku":"9783319011554","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319011554.jpg?v=1774493222","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319011554","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}