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Mission: Redstone 3
Craft Name: Freedom 7
Mission Goals: Achieve suborbital flight
Mission Results: Successful suborbital
flight that lasted 15 minutes and put the
first American in space -
Period: to
American Manned Space Exploration
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Mission: Redstone 4
Craft Name: Liberty Bell 7
Crew: Virgil I. Grissom
Mission Results: Suborbital flight
that lasted 16 minutes, but sank
after splashdown -
Mission: Atlas 6
Craft Name: Friendship 7
Crew: John H. Glenn Jr.
Mission Goals: Achieve multi-orbit flight
Mission Results: Achieved a 3 orbit flight
that put the first American into complete orbit -
Mission: Atlas 7
Craft Name: Aurora 7
Crew: Scott M. Carpenter
Mission Goals: Duplicate the success of Atlas 6
Mission Results: Successfully duplicated the
results