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Project Mercury
Language: en
Pages: 86
Authors: John Catchpole
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-26 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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Catchpole tells the fascinating story behind the development of the first American manned space program and its associated infrastructure. He provides accounts
MERCURY PROJECT SUMMARY INCLUDING RESULTS OF THE FOURTH MANNED ORBITAL FLIGHT, MAY 15 AND 16, 1963
Language: en
Pages: 462
The Right Stuff
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Tom Wolfe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-04 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part
The Mercury 13
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Martha Ackmann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-13 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961,
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Jeff Shesol
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-01 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how c