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Liftoff of Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 Mission

Liftoff of Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket
Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) rocket from Cape Canaveral on astronaut Alan B. Shepard's Freedom 7 suborbital mission. NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson did trajectory analysis for the mission, America’s first human spaceflight.

Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) rocket from Cape Canaveral on astronaut Alan B. Shepard’s Freedom 7 suborbital mission. NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson did trajectory analysis for the mission, America’s first human spaceflight.

Photo credit: NASA