Suborbital 1

THE MANNED FLIGHTS

Sub-orbital flights:

Mercury-Redstone 3
FREEDOM 7
May 5, 1961
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
15 minutes, 28 seconds
Suborbital flight that successfully put the first American in space.

Mercury-Redstone 4
LIBERTY BELL 7
July 21, 1961
Virgil I. Grissom
15 minutes, 37 seconds
Also suborbital; successful flight but the spacecraft sank shortly after splashdown.