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Jun 12th, 2009 at 9:04am

Leigh   Offline
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Mercury-Redstone 3 was NASA's first manned space mission. On May 5, 1961 the launch of the Mercury-Redstone 3 with the Mercury capsule named "Freedom 7" Blasted into suborbital flight with the pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr being the first American man into space. The flight only lasted 16 minutes and reached an altitude of 187kms but it started Americas push into the space race. This was the first of 2 flights Alan Shepard made, the last one being Apollo 14.

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Reply #1 - Jun 12th, 2009 at 12:00pm

Rich H   Offline
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Amazing... great model and composite.
 

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Reply #2 - Jun 14th, 2009 at 6:37am

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Thank you Richard
 

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Reply #3 - Jun 26th, 2009 at 3:27am

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How am I sapose to beat you. Grin
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 1st, 2009 at 11:59pm

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hmmm i dont know Tongue

 

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