Mercury MR-3

May 5th, 1961 - First Manned suborbital Mercury flight. Crew: A. Shepard. Booster: Redstone
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  • Original documents and footage
    •   Mercury-Redstone 3 Press Kit (April 36, 1961 - 38 pages) - PDF   Proceedings of a Conference on Results of the First U.S. Manned Suborbital Space Flight (June 6, 1961 - 74 pages) - PDF   Postlaunch Report for Mercury-Redstone No. 3 (MR-3) (June 16, 1961 - 113 pages) - PDF   Voice Communications Transcript. Excerpt from Postlaunch Report for Mercury-Redstone No. 3 (MR-3) (June 16, 1961 - 7 pages) - PDF   Mercury 3 - Raw audio recordings (from Internet Archive) - WAV and other formats   Photos from Mercury MR-3 70mm Earth/sky camera (credits: NASA JSC - Arizona State University)   Mercury III photos at NASA JSC Digital Image Collection   Mercury Redstone 3 photos on NASA's Human Spaceflight website
  • Press and TV
    •   'AOK!' The U.S. in the Space - Life magazine (May 12, 1961)
  • Interviews and documentaries
    •   Freedom 7 - Project Mercury - Nasa documentary (1961)   Looking out of the window of Freedom 7 (1961)   Onboard Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard (2010)   Freedom 7 - Full Mission (2012)
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