Suborbital
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Bildinfo
- Etwa 5 Minuten in der Schwerelosigkeit: der erste Flug eines amerikanischen Astronauten (1961) in den Weltraum war ein sogenannter suborbitaler Flug.
- Originalbeschrift Flight path: Suborbital flight by MR-3, 1961. Dashed line signifies zero gravity (except at retrofire)
- Originalbeschriftung Alan Shepard: Astronaut Alan Shepard photographed in flight by a 16mm movie camera inside the Freedom 7 spacecraft. Shepard is just about to raise the shield in front of his face during descent after opening of the main parachute.
- Originalbeschriftung Erdanblick: Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight Earth observations of a cloudy Earth surface.