Selecting the Mercury Seven The Search for America's First Astronauts /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8405-0 |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Author's Preface
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Chapter 1: Sailing in and out of war
- Chapter 2: The call goes out
- Chapter 3: Narrowing the field
- Chapter 4: The finalists
- Chapter 5: Tennessee patriot, pilot, and poet
- Chapter 6: Lovelace Clinic, New Mexico
- Chapter 7: Wright-Patterson: the final hurdle
- Chapter 8: Announcing the Mercury astronauts
- Chapter 9: Back in contention
- Chapter 10: Mercury Seven
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.