Selecting the Mercury Seven : The Search for America's First Astronauts
In January 1959, after an exhaustive search through military service records, a number of Americas elite test pilots received orders to attend a series of top-secret briefings in Washington, D.C. These briefings were designed to assist in selecting a group of astronauts for the newly formed National...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
[20..].
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edició: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Col·lecció: | Space Exploration
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| Accés en línia: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Selecting the Mercury Seven, Texte imprimé, 9781441984043 • Selecting the Mercury Seven, Texte imprimé, 9781441984043 • Selecting the Mercury Seven, Texte imprimé, 9781441984067 |
Taula de continguts:
- Foreword Author's Preface About the author Acknowledgements Illustrations Chapter 1: Sailing in and out of war Chapter 2: The call goes out Chapter 3: Narrowing the field Chapter 4: The finalists Chapter 5: Tennessee patriot, pilot, and poet Chapter 6: Lovelace Clinic, New Mexico Chapter 7: Wright-Patterson: the final hurdle Chapter 8: Announcing the Mercury astronauts Chapter 9: Back in contention Chapter 10: Mercury Seven Appendices Bibliography Index