Liberty Bell 7 The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom /

• Main Author: Burgess, Colin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; History of Science.

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 neve...

Table of Contents:

• An astronaut named Gus
• The MR-3 mission and spacecraft
• Preparing for launch
• The flight of Liberty Bell 7
• An astronaut in peril
• One program ends, another begins
• From the depths of the ocean.