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Colin Burgess

Aurora 7

The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter

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TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA's second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the very real possibility that an American astronaut and his spacecraft may have been lost at sea.In fact, it had been a very close call. Completely out of fuel and forced to manually guide Aurora 7 through the frightening inferno of re-entry, Carpenter brought the Mercury spacecraft down to a safe… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-20438-3
  • EAN: 9783319204383
  • Produktnummer: 31954058
  • Verlag: Springer Nature EN
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 239 S.
  • Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.9 cm x D1.7 cm 543 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
  • Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 543
  • Sonstiges: Popular/general

Über den Autor


Colin Burgess's first book, The Diggers of Colditz was published simultaneously in the U.K. and Australia in 1985. He has written a number of books on the subject for the University of Nebraska Press and Springer-Praxis. The books written or co-authored for Springer-Praxis are NASA's Scientist-Astronauts, Animals in Space, The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team, Selecting the Mercury Seven, Moon Bound, Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7. He is also series editor and sometimes author for the Outward Odyssey series of books on the social history of space exploration for the University of Nebraska Press.

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