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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

The heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for Americaâ€™s first manned space voyages.

Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASAâ€™s manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts including Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slaytonâ€”take you behind the scenes of this pioneering programâ€”even into the space capsules themselves.

Featuring fascinating firsthand accounts and black-and-white photographs throughoutâ€”the astronauts describe the exhilarating launches, hair-raising challenges, and incredible successes of Project Mercuryâ€”from breaking through the earthâ€™s atmosphere to panicking when a hatch blows. But Project Mercury was more than the heroism of individual missions. In We Seven, Americaâ€™s original astronauts share with usâ€”as only they canâ€”the hopes and dreams of the US at the dawn of a new era.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781439181034
ReleaseDate 2010-01-12
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781439181034

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