MR-3 “Freedom 7″

The capsule for America’s first manned mission into space sits in the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. I drove out to see it while I was spending the day visiting a good friend who had just moved to Alexandria to take a position at the U.S. Patent Office. He was one of my groomsmen, and a college roommate. Since his wife was still closing up their house in St. Louis, it was just the “boys”. Somehow I convinced him to drive out to Annapolis to see Freedom 7.

The true miracle was the fact we actually found parking in Annapolis in the summer.

NASA Project Mercury Mission MR-3

Mercury-Redstone 3 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia