Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 capsule was an inspiration.
Crew-4 astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Samantha Cristoforetti on the Crew Dragon"Freedom.""Through the Commercial Crew Program, NASA and SpaceX have restored a national capability and we honor the ingenuity and hard work of those involved.
flew on Freedom 7 at the dawn of human spaceflight. We are honored to bring Freedom to a new generation!" he said.NASA's Mercury-Redstone 3 suborbital mission . He chose"Freedom" for his spacecraft's name in light of the Cold War space race between the United States and then-Soviet Union. " is in the care of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, which plans on displaying the capsule in its new"Destination Moon" gallery when it opens later this year. The museum also has the unflown Mercury spacecraft that Shepard unofficially named"Freedom 7 II" in a failed bid to get a second Mercury mission.
"Freedom," the SpaceX spacecraft, marks the second time a crew has looked to NASA's past to name their new vehicle. The first Dragon to launch astronauts to the International Space Station"We both had our first flights on [space] shuttle Endeavour, and it just meant so much to us to carry on that name.
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