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Author : Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mercury Project Summary written by Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Catchpole
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781852334062
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Project Mercury written by John Catchpole and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catchpole tells the fascinating story behind the development of the first American manned space program and its associated infrastructure. He provides accounts of the space launch vehicles, astronauts and their training, tracking systems and individual flights.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Download or read book MERCURY PROJECT SUMMARY INCLUDING RESULTS OF THE FOURTH MANNED ORBITAL FLIGHT, MAY 15 AND 16, 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mercury project summary written by United States. Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Shesol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003251
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War written by Jeff Shesol and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."
Author : Loyd S. Swenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book This New Ocean written by Loyd S. Swenson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Ackmann
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758933
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Mercury 13 written by Martha Ackmann and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America’s space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests. Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope.
Author : Nasa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258443009
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Mercury Project Summary written by Nasa and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing Authors Include Walter C. Williams, James E. Bost, Charles W. McGuire, And Many Others.
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429961325
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Right Stuff written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495377686
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Project Mercury written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Updated February 13, 2006) Project Mercury is now history. In its short span of four years, eight months, and one week as the Nation's first manned space flight program, Mercury earned a unique place in the annals of science and technology. The culmination of decades of investigation and application of aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, celestial mechanics, aerospace medicine, and electronics, Project Mercury took man beyond the atmosphere into space orbit. It confirmed the potential for man's mobility in his universe. It remains for Projects Gemini and Apollo to demonstrate that potential. Project Mercury was not only a step in the history of flight technology, it was a major step in national commitment to space research and exploration and to man's struggle to fly. One has only to contrast it with the Wright Brothers' achievements of sixty years ago, when two meticulous men, with a bicycle shop, a handmade wind tunnel, determination and industriousness, and little financial means or support, accomplished controlled, powered flight. The austere contrast of the Wrights or of Professor Goddard's rocket work with today's Government-sponsored, highly complex space program, involving thousands of persons and hundreds of Federal, industrial, and university activities, is eloquent testimony to the new prominence of science and technology in our daily lives. The evolution and achievements of Project Mercury offer an outstanding example of a truly national effort in the advancement of knowledge and its application. The Project Mercury story must be examined in the full context of its fundamental features - scientific, engineering, managerial - in the dynamic human environment of national and international life. Indeed, the national commitment to Project Mercury and its successors requires a valid perspective on the potential accomplishments of science and technology as well as on the response of a democratic society to the challenges of its day. This chronology of Project Mercury represents only a beginning on the full history, just as Mercury was only a first step in the development of American space transportation. No chronology is a history. This volume is but a preface to what is yet to come. Yet it offers us a catalog of processes by which man progresses from ideas originating in the human mind to the physical devices for man's travel to the moon and beyond.
Author : Mae Mills Link
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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Space Medicine in Project Mercury written by Mae Mills Link and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loyd S. Swenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Download or read book This New Ocean written by Loyd S. Swenson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Briefing on NASA Reorganization Project Mercury Summary written by United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Grimwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Project Mercury written by James M. Grimwood and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763656097
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Almost Astronauts written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow. What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape -- any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the scrawled note of one of the most powerful men in Washington. But even though the Mercury 13 women did not make it into space, they did not lose, for their example empowered young women to take their place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules. ALMOST ASTRONAUTS is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age. Back matter includes an author’s note, an appendix, further reading, a bibliography, sources, source notes, and an index.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309171717
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-09-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercury is widespread in our environment. Methylmercury, one organic form of mercury, can accumulate up the aquatic food chain and lead to high concentrations in predatory fish. When consumed by humans, contaminated fish represent a public health risk. Combustion processes, especially coal-fired power plants, are major sources of mercury contamination in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering regulating mercury emissions from those plants. Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury reviews the health effects of methylmercury and discusses the estimation of mercury exposure from measured biomarkers, how differences between individuals affect mercury toxicity, and appropriate statistical methods for analysis of the data and thoroughly compares the epidemiological studies available on methylmercury. Included are discussions of current mercury levels on public health and a delineation of the scientific aspects and policy decisions involved in the regulation of mercury. This report is a valuable resource for individuals interested in the public health effects and regulation of mercury. The report also provides an excellent example of the implications of decisions in the risk assessment process for a larger audience.
Author : Sean C. Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107154456
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Mercury written by Sean C. Solomon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an authoritative synthesis of knowledge of the planet Mercury after the MESSENGER mission, for researchers and students in planetary science.
