{"id":24219,"date":"2021-05-07T04:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24219"},"modified":"2021-05-07T04:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:50:03","slug":"mercury-redstone-3-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24219","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Redstone 3 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2105\/6100884MR3_900.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Sixty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers &#8220;lit the candle&#8221; and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7. Broadcast live to a global television audience, the historic Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Florida at 9:34 a.m. Eastern Time on May 5, 1961. The flight of Freedom 7, the first space flight by an American, followed less than a month after the first human venture into space by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The 15 minute sub-orbital flight achieved an altitude of 116 miles and a maximum speed of 5,134 miles per hour. As Shepard looked back near the peak of Freedom 7&#8217;s trajectory, he could see the outlines of the west coast of Florida, Lake Okeechobe in central Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas. Shepard would later view planet Earth from a more distant perspective and walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210507.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers &#8220;lit the candle&#8221; and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24219\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24220,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219\/revisions\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}