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suborbital arc, the "start retro sequence" light came on, alerting
Shepard that the three retrorockets were about to fire. They would do this in sequence five seconds apart, burning for ten seconds each. Shepard began adjusting his pitch nose downward toward the proper retrofire attitude of –34 degrees, but he only got to around orbit attitude (–14 degrees) before the first retrorocket fired. He then got his pitch further down to about –25 degrees in time for the second and third retrorockets. This pitch discrepancy was not critical for this flight, because Shepard's suborbital trajectory would lead to reentry anyway, and the difference in pitch wouldn't affect Shepard's landing location much; Shepard was only testing the pilot's ability to manually control the spacecraft's attitude during retrofire. In his initial postflight debriefing, Shepard reported that he must have somehow gotten confused about his pitch attitude, but as it turned out he was the victim of a misunderstanding. This particular spacecraft's pitch indicator had originally been set so that its reference position for retrofire attitude, which was the
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its primary means for observing. The periscope could be set either to a low-magnification wide-angle view or to a high-magnification narrow-angle view, and different optical filters could be inserted by turning a knob. During his long wait on the launch pad, Shepard had inserted a medium-gray filter in the periscope to cut down on sun glare, but he had not had time to undo this before launch. He found that when he tried to reach the filter knob to change it, the wrist of his spacesuit would bump the handle by his left hand that would manually activate the launch escape system. Even though the escape tower was long gone, Shepard gave up on trying to change the filter out of caution, leaving it in for the rest of the flight. Although the gray filter washed out colors, Shepard was still easily able to distinguish major land masses from clouds. He reported identifying major features such as the east coast of
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control stick proportionally opened valves to the manual jets. The system could be selectively enabled on each axis, with ASCS automatically controlling the non-enabled axes. Shepard gradually assumed manual control, one axis at a time, leaving the remaining axes to ASCS. First he took manual control of pitch, reorienting the spacecraft from its "orbit attitude" of 14 degrees nose-down pitch to the retrofire attitude of 34 degrees nose-down pitch, then returning to orbit attitude. He then took manual control of
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a few minutes, and after a brief problem with the spacecraft antenna, the capsule was lifted partly out of the water in order to allow
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jets. Soon afterward, the retrorocket pack was automatically jettisoned. This pack was attached over the heatshield by straps and so was normally released before reentry. Shepard heard the noise of the jettison and saw one of the straps fly past a window, but the confirmation light did not turn on. However, fellow
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Shepard reported that fly-by-wire felt smooth and gave the sensation of being fully in command of the craft, before letting the automatic systems briefly take over to reorient the capsule for reentry. He then kept control until the g-forces peaked at 11.6g during re-entry; he held the capsule until
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but rather to the fact that Shepard's spacecraft was factory model no. 7. However, the other astronauts liked the symbolism, and each appended 7 to their spacecraft names as well. Thus, Shepard set a double precedent, both for naming the Mercury spacecraft at all, and for the common structure of
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position on the indicator, was at –43 degrees pitch, rather than the –34 degrees later decided upon for retrofire. Shepard had assumed it was still set that way and deliberately adjusted his pitch high to compensate. But in fact the indicator had been changed, with the "nine o'clock" reference
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along with pitch, yawing the spacecraft to the left and then to the right to bring it back in line. Finally he assumed control of roll as well, testing it and then restoring the spacecraft's roll to normal. Once Shepard had taken control of all three axes, he found that the spacecraft's manual
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was launched) and was piloted by fictional astronaut Carl Bell. The exhibit states that Bell was the first human in space in this timeline and did not survive the space flight, having died in a crash landing. His skeleton and space suit were donated to the museum and are on display there.
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was unwilling to launch the MR-3 mission without further development work; by late February, there were still seven major alterations they had made to the booster which required testing. An additional testing flight was accordingly added to the schedule,
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test flight on December 19. The replacement, Redstone #7, did not arrive at the Cape until late March; by this time, however, the mission had already been postponed to await the results of another test flight.
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which would return later missions from orbit, though the capsule did not have enough energy to remain in orbit. After re-entry, the capsule landed by parachute on the North Atlantic Ocean off the
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response was about the same as that of the Mercury simulator; however, he could not hear the jets firing, as he could on the ground, due to the levels of background noise.
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1789:, pp. 34, 49–50, 63, 90.
1392:, as Florida did not observe
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806:National Air and Space Museum
742:landed at these coordinates:
621:Launch of MR-3 on May 5, 1961
485:, who completed one orbit on
389:, on May 5, 1961, piloted by
4164:Space program on U.S. stamps
4089:Gemini and Apollo medallions
4039:Solar System Family Portrait
3815:Joint Polar Satellite System
3684:Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
2938:Vision for Space Exploration
2908:Space Exploration Initiative
2086:The Mercury-Redstone Program
1961:(Report). NASA. June 6, 1961
1835:The Mercury-Redstone Program
1765:, pp. 34, 49–50, 63–64.
1726:, pp. 34, 48–49, 62–63.
1712:The Mercury-Redstone Program
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4159:U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
4116:We choose to go to the Moon
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3356:Great Observatories program
3200:International Space Station
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1524:
1520:This New Ocean
1512:
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1494:
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1481:This New Ocean
1473:
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950:Philip Kaufman
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677:"nine o'clock"
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570:
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448:Cape Canaveral
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273:
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4260:
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4006:
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3999:
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3992:
3991:
3989:
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3283:
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3223:
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3208:
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3198:
3197:
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3175:
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3166:Space Shuttle
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2593:
2592:Mercury-Atlas
2590:
2589:
2587:
2583:
2572:
2569:
2568:
2566:
2562:
2556:
2553:Did not fly:
2552:
2550:
2549:Gordon Cooper
2547:
2545:
2544:Wally Schirra
2542:
2540:
2537:
2535:
2532:Earth orbit:
2531:
2529:
2526:
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2520:
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2506:Mercury Seven
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2689:Launch sites
2626:(spacecraft)
2573:(space suit)
2571:Navy Mark IV
2555:Deke Slayton
2523:Alan Shepard
2389:Little Joe 5
2349:Little Joe 1
2332:Freedom 7 II
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3985:NASA images
3557:Opportunity
3026:NASA Social
2852:and history
2617:Contractors
2585:Subprograms
2528:Gus Grissom
2379:Beach Abort
2329:Cancelled:
2106:. US: NASA.
1894:February 8,
1873:, pp. 356–7
1777:, pp. 353–5
1738:, pp. 71-72
1546:, pp. 323–4
1396:until 1966.
1283:Splashdown
960:Scott Glenn
764: /
628:Freedom 7's
554:Gus Grissom
497:Preparation
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206:Launch date
138:Launch mass
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4147:Moon rocks
3907:Astronauts
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3452:Pioneer 10
3255:Hitchhiker
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2967:Space Race
2799:Mercury 13
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2609:(canceled)
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2246:Space race
2126:1852334061
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713:Splashdown
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550:John Glenn
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3729:Voyager 1
3665:Curiosity
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3526:MESSENGER
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3424:Apollo 11
3371:Discovery
3361:Explorers
2950:Augustine
2914:Augustine
2564:Equipment
2354:Big Joe 1
2288:Freedom 7
2050:HTML copy
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1007:Freedom 7
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3716:timeline
3672:timeline
3569:observed
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3532:Aquarius
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2944:Aldridge
2863:creation
2664:Redstone
2636:Chrysler
2471:Miss Sam
2342:Uncrewed
2310:Aurora 7
2272:Missions
2177:Archived
2053:Archived
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1942:PC Gamer
1861:, p. 356
1849:, p. 355
1825:, p. 355
1750:, p. 353
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1618:, p. 365
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1471:, p. 342
1330:Vostok 1
1308:See also
1059:Liftoff
487:Vostok 1
438:, 187.5
410:g-forces
185:Callsign
87:, 487.3
58:Operator
4230:Commons
4108:Related
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3912:by name
3689:GOES 15
3679:GOES 14
3596:flights
3582:InSight
3538:Cassini
3466:Galileo
3391:SIMPLEx
3366:Voyager
3334:Current
3290:Pioneer
3260:Mariner
3239:Robotic
3220:Artemis
3193:Current
3136:Mercury
3128: (
3021:NASA TV
2960:General
2859:History
2777:Related
2679:Jupiter
2652:Rockets
2630:Convair
2499:General
2324:Faith 7
2317:Sigma 7
2229:General
2074:. NASA.
1965:May 14,
1837:, p. 27
1813:, p. 72
1714:, p. 15
1169:Apogee
1009:called
874:capsule
752:75°53′W
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3808:Future
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2910:(1989)
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