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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Friendship 7
    sub title: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr
  name:
    name part: Burgess, Colin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 275 p. 186 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration. A nation proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever enshrined in American spaceflight history. On the morning of February 20, 1962, following months of frustrating delays, a Marine Corps war hero and test pilot named John Glenn finally blazed a path into orbit aboard a compact capsule named Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions.
  table of contents: Developing the Mercury-Atlas program -- The orbital flight of chimpanzee Enos -- A Marine on a mission -- Delays, and more delays -- “Godspeed, John Glenn.” -- A drama-filled mission -- A safe splashdown -- Epilogue: Beyond the Mercury program.
  note: by Colin Burgess.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783319156545
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15654-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 150407
    record change date: 20151111194510.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-15654-5