50 Years Ago: Alan Shepard, First American in Space
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2011
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On May 5, 1961, Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. made history, becoming the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight in his Freedom 7 caspsule.
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A true American Hero! RIP Mr. Shepard.
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God bless you Alan Shepard
My dad was on board the USS Lake Champlain when they picked him up.
Why not use the actual in-flight comm?
Smile'n Al, the icy commander.
at ignition and lift off there wasn't as much smoke and fire as we see in todays launches.
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Did Shepard figure8s orbit URANUS? Did he see blue the holetym? Artyr Myrdwren (running starboard round 7 slingshot loop slipknots..'stern crows nest RMS Lightning)
So he wasnt the first american to orbit earth??
No, that was John Glenn. Shepard’s flight was a suborbital one, only about 15 minutes.
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daniel ghijs hell yeah lol. That’s what I noticed first “commander Shepard”.
Ok john gleen was the first old person in space alan was the first male american in space sally ride was the first female american in space
And Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. Both of them were Soviet people
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The fact is, that Gagarin was the first man in space, but Freedom 7 was the first space flight, and Alan Shepard was the first space pilot. At no point did Gagarin have control of the Vostok capsule, he was simply a passenger.
Also, Gagarin bailed out and landed by parachute miles away from his capsule. We now know that the Soviets lied when they said he landed in the capsule. They said this at the time because landing in your craft was a requirement set by the international body that governs aviation records in order to be recognized as a space flight. It was only years later that it was discovered that Gagarin did not land in the capsule. Also, it was required for the pilot to control the craft in flight. Gagarin did not do this either.
In contrast, Shepard fired his retro rockets and thrusters to manually align his craft for re-entry, and, he landed in the capsule.
lol is shit and propaganda. Gagarin - first human in space.
He was simply a passenger of probably dead-mission for the very first time in humankind. Every human spaceflight is still totally dangerous, but yes, mr. John lol Kepler, you're right it's the same as driving Uber on a passenger seat
Dandelion Wine The reason why Gagarin's spacecraft was ground controlled was due to the fact that the mission planners were not sure that an astronaut was not in danger of losing councioucness at some point in the flight. That said, Gagarin was fully trained to manually fly the space vehicle if the up link failed. Trying to down play Soviet achievements in space travel is laughable at best and disrespectful at worst.
as far as I know, Gagarin actually could switch to operating himself, but as you said, they really were afraid of losing Juri's mind so they put the math exercise he has to solve in envelope which solution was the code to switching.
That's the story Roscosmos tells)
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"but Freedom 7 was the first space flight" even if you're going to claim that Gagarin's flight didn't count, Vostok 1 happened nearly a month before Freedom 7. Your point about Gagarin being merely a passenger is funny as well, since Alan Shepard was not controlling his craft for the absolute majority of his flight. To even play to the landing-the-craft definition is silly, because the FAI would have recognized the flight regardless, the stretching of the truth on the situation was due to the expectation that the US would dispute the validity of the flight. Once it was public that Gagarin didn't land inside the capsule some 4 months later, the FAI changed their guidelines to remove the requirement of landing inside the capsule (which itself was based on a rather dated conception of spaceflight of being similar to flying any aircraft, rather than being an overwhelmingly automated process still today.)
Further, Freedom 7 hardly even counts as a space flight, there is an immense difference between simply crossing the Karman line, and actually entering into orbit. The Redstone rocket, in its most advanced configuration, struggled to put more than 30 pounds into orbit, where the R-7 was putting 10,000 pound payloads into orbit by 1962. Comparing Freedom 7 to Vostok 1 is near literally comparing a short-range missile to an ICBM, they're an order of magnitude apart.
The truth is that the US didn't put a man into orbit until a year after the USSR did, the glorification of Freedom 7 as being on par with Vostok 1 is a surviving propaganda point to allow the US to save face, which didn't then, and still doesn't reflect reality. It was especially embarrassing for the US as the USSR had carried out two separate crewed orbital missions before the US managed its first one, some 6 months after the second Soviet mission.
He barely skimmed the very bottom of where space begins, it's a stretch to say he went into space, he made a high altitude jump into the ocean. How far from the launch site, not very far.
And you have proof of that?shut up! Idiot!
Apollo Antares you say that, because I do not like Russian. Gagarin - first man in space. The fact that you have to accept. And all the rest, conspiracy theory and the rewriting of history.
Piss off how many Russians landed on the moon! NONE!
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