MR-3

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MR-3 is the designation for Mercury-Redstone 3, the NASA mission that carried Alan Shepard on the first American crewed spaceflight in 1961.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mercury program mission
crewed suborbital flight
spaceflight mission
apogee 187.5 km
about 116 miles
astronautNationality United States NERFINISHED
astronautRole pilot
capsuleManufacturer McDonnell Aircraft Corporation NERFINISHED
capsuleName Freedom 7 NERFINISHED
commander Alan Shepard NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewCallsSign Freedom 7 NERFINISHED
crewEgress recovered at sea after splashdown
crewMember Alan Shepard NERFINISHED
crewSize 1
firstOf first American crewed spaceflight
flightProfile suborbital ballistic trajectory
followedBy MR-4
Mercury-Redstone 4 NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Freedom 7 mission
Mercury-Redstone 3 NERFINISHED
historicalSignificance demonstrated Mercury spacecraft performance with a human on board
first U.S. human spaceflight mission
landingSite Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
landingType splashdown
launchDate 1961-05-05
launchSite Cape Canaveral NERFINISHED
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle NERFINISHED
Redstone rocket NERFINISHED
launchYear 1961
missionDuration 00:15:28
missionType crewed suborbital spaceflight
operator NASA
partOf Project Mercury NERFINISHED
precededBy uncrewed Mercury-Redstone test flights
programGoal demonstrate manned spaceflight capability
rangeDownrange 486 km
about 302 miles
recoveryShip USS Lake Champlain NERFINISHED
relatedEvent Space Race NERFINISHED
relatedMission Vostok 1 NERFINISHED
rocketFamily Redstone family NERFINISHED
safetyFeatureTested Mercury escape system
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 NERFINISHED
timePeriod Cold War

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