The asronauts themselves (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1962. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; small bump to top of front board. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.50); light chipping to head and tail; missing small pieces to bottom of front panel and top of rear panel; wear to tips. Black cloth over boards and spine with white lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. Pictorial endpapers. Original sales slip from Marshall Field and Company is laid in. 352 pp 8vo. This is the heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America's first manned space voyages. Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASA's manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In this book the astronauts (Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton) take you behind the scenes of this pioneering program—even into the space capsules themselves. Featuring fascinating firsthand accounts and black-and-white photographs throughout—the astronauts describe the exhilarating launches, hair-raising challenges, and incredible successes of Project Mercury—from breaking through the earth's atmosphere to panicking when a hatch blows. But Project Mercury was more than the heroism of individual missions. In We Seven, America's original astronauts share with us—as only they can—the hopes and dreams of the US at the dawn of a new era. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…