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Freedom 7 was a spacecraft launched by NASA, using the Mercury-Redstone Rocket, carrying Alan Shepard.[1] The Redstone launch vehicle (a modified Ballistic Missile) on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight--a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range.