Friendship 7 : The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. /

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration.   A nation pr...

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Main Author: Burgess, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Springer Praxis books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Developing the Mercury-Atlas program
  • The orbital flight of chimpanzee Enos
  • A Marine on a mission
  • Delays, and more delays
  • “Godspeed, John Glenn.”
  • A drama-filled mission
  • A safe splashdown
  • Epilogue: Beyond the Mercury program.