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[b]Remembering Mercury-Redstone 3 (May 5, 1961)[/b] Mercury-Redstone 3, piloted by Alan Shepard aboard the Mercury spacecraft "Freedom 7," was the first United States human spaceflight on May 5, 1961. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury, a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating launch and atmospheric re-entry.
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