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From the outset, the Freedom 7 spacecraft was never intended to serve any practical purpose after its history-making flight, let alone fly into space again. Instead, it was gifted to the American people by NASA, to be preserved in a museum environment and openly exhibited for everyone to visit.
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Burgess, C. (2014). Epilogue. In: Freedom 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01156-1_8
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