Liberty Bell 7
The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom
NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil ('Gus') Grissom piloting the spacecraft to a successful splashdown, followed by the premature blowing of the craft's explosive hatch. After a hurried exit and struggling to stay afloat, he could only watch helplessly as the recovery helicopter pilot valia…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-04391-3
- EAN: 9783319043913
- Produktnummer: 16901206
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 275 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 15'054 KB
- Auflage: 2014
- Abbildungen: 191 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
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Colin Burgess's first book, The Diggers of Colditz was published simultaneously in the U.K. and Australia in 1985. His next few books were on the Australian prisoner-of-war experience and then he turned his efforts to writing about his principal interest: human space exploration. Burgess has written a number of books on the subject for the University of Nebraska Press and Springer-Praxis. The books he has written or co-authored for Springer-Praxis are NASA's Scientist-Astronauts, Animals in Space, The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team, and Selecting the Mercury Seven. Recently finished the copyediting/typesetting process is his latest book for Springer-Praxis, Moon Bound: Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts. In the interim he has also worked as series editor and sometimes author for the Outward Odyssey set of 12 books on the social history of space exploration for the University of Nebraska Press.
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