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Colin Burgess

Selecting the Mercury Seven

The Search for America's First Astronauts

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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 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its man-in-space program, Project Mercury.Following in-depth medical and psychological screening, 32 finalists were chosen. They would be subjected to the most rigorous, exploratory, and even degrading medical and psychological stress tests ever imposed on the nation's service personnel. NASA wanted… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4419-8404-3
  • EAN: 9781441984043
  • Produktnummer: 11235652
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 371 S.
  • Masse: H24.6 cm x B17.2 cm x D2.4 cm 653 g
  • Abbildungen: 167 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 371 p. 167 illus.
  • Gewicht: 653

Über den Autor


Colin Burgess' first book (The Diggers of Colditz) was published in 1985. Since that time he has had twenty-three non-fiction books published in Australia and overseas, which includes three co-authored books for Springer-Praxis. With only a few exceptions, all of his published books within the last fifteen years have been on spaceflight. Since 2003 Colin has been the series editor and sometimes author for the Outward Odyssey series of twelve books for the University of Nebraska Press (UNP). Two of his co-authored spaceflight books for this publisher, Into That Silent Sea and In the Shadow of the Moon, were finalists for the 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, given by the American Astronomical Society. In the Shadow of the Moon was also named as 2009 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine.

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