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Mercury-Redstone 3

Space flight
Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut... Wikipedia
Date: May 5, 1961
Altitude: 116 miles
Crew size: 1
Launch mass: 4,040 pounds (1,830 kg)
Range: 263.1 nautical miles (302.8 statute miles, 487.3 km)
Recovered by: USS Lake Champlain
Rocket: Redstone MRLV MR-7