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SUMMARY:Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 3
DESCRIPTION:Mercury-Redstone 3\, or Freedom 7\, was the first United State
 s human spaceflight\, on May 5\, 1961\, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard
 . It was the first manned flight of Project Mercury\, the objective of wh
 ich was to put an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and return him sa
 fely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primar
 y objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces o
 f launch and atmospheric re-entry.
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