Friendship 7 the epic orbital flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Burgess, Colin.
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- 其他題名：
- Springer-Praxis books in space exploration
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer
- 叢書名： Springer-Praxis books in space exploration
- 主題： Glenn, John, 1921- , Project Mercury (U.S.) , Friendship 7 (Spacecraft) , Popular Science. , Popular Science in Astronomy. , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. , Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. , History of Science.
- ISBN： 9783319156545 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319156538 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 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.
- 摘要註: 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 proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever enshrined in American spaceflight history. On the morning of February 20, 1962, following months of frustrating delays, a Marine Corps war hero and test pilot named John Glenn finally blazed a path into orbit aboard a compact capsule named Friendship 7. The book's tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America's most ambitious and memora.ble pioneering space missions.
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- 系統號： 005133555 | 機讀編目格式
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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 proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever enshrined in American spaceflight history. On the morning of February 20, 1962, following months of frustrating delays, a Marine Corps war hero and test pilot named John Glenn finally blazed a path into orbit aboard a compact capsule named Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions.