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Project Mercury's first manned mission, MR-3 (callsign Freedom 7), launched using a Mercury-Redstone rocket and carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, was flown on May 5, 1961. The entire suborbital flight lasted just 16 minutes, and achieved an altitude of just over 116 miles.

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