03865nam 22007335 450 991030042390332120221004222238.03-319-15654-310.1007/978-3-319-15654-5(CKB)3710000000393515(EBL)2096352(SSID)ssj0001501481(PQKBManifestationID)11921011(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001501481(PQKBWorkID)11446774(PQKB)11333227(DE-He213)978-3-319-15654-5(MiAaPQ)EBC2096352(PPN)185489567(EXLCZ)99371000000039351520150407d2015 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFriendship 7 The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. /by Colin Burgess1st ed. 2015.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2015.1 online resource (293 p.)Space ExplorationDescription based upon print version of record.3-319-15653-5 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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.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.Space ExplorationAstronomyAerospace engineeringAstronauticsSpace sciencesHistoryPopular Science in Astronomyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009Aerospace Technology and Astronauticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030History of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000Astronomy.Aerospace engineering.Astronautics.Space sciences.History.Popular Science in Astronomy.Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).History of Science.500.5509520629.1Burgess Colin1947-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut761860BOOK9910300423903321Friendship 71771580UNINA