Gene Gurney
Americans into orbit: The story of Project Mercury
Hardcover
(Random House March 15, 1969)
, 3rd edition
LOTS OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. PARTIAL list of keywords: astronaut; Acceleration Laboratory; Ames Aeronautical Laboratory; Apollo Project; Project Mercury; Atlantic Missile Range; Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Friendship 7; Cape Canaveral; carbon dioxide; Scott Carpenter; centrigue; chimpanzee; Gordon Cooper; cosmic rays; docking method; Enos; escape rocket; Explorer I; Yuri Gagarin; John Glenn; Ham; High Speed Flight Station; Iconel-X; Jupiter-C rocket; Liberty Bell; Little Joe rocket; MASTIF; Mercury project; Virgil Grissom; Miss Sam; Multiple Axis Space Test Facility; Joa; Nova rocket; Operation Paperclip; parachute; Peenemuende; etc, etc.
- Series
- Landmark books
- Pages
- 190
- Weight
- 25.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.1 x 6.6 in.
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