Faith 7 L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and the Final Mercury Mission /

• Main Author: Burgess, Colin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Praxis, 2016.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; History.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; History of Science.

This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and Ge...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Alfred Worden (CMP Apollo 15)
• Acknowledgements
• Author Prologue
• Chapter 1: An astronaut from Oklahoma
• Chapter 2: The final Mercury mission
• Chapter 3: One reckless act
• Chapter 4: A day in space with Faith 7
• Chapter 5: “A victory for the human spirit”
• Chapter 6: The end of the Mercury era
• Chapter 7: From Gemini to Apollo
• Chapter 8: “The greatest pilot you ever saw”
• Appendices
• Index.