Selecting the Mercury Seven The Search for America's First Astronauts /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Burgess, Colin (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Physics.; Space sciences.; Popular works.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Popular Science, general.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.