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200 10$aFriendship 7 $eThe Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. /$fby Colin Burgess
205   $a1st ed. 2015.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (293 p.)
225 1 $aSpace Exploration
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a3-319-15653-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
327   $aDeveloping 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.
330   $aIn 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.
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606   $aAstronomy
606   $aAerospace engineering
606   $aAstronautics
606   $aSpace sciences
606   $aHistory
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615  0$aAstronomy.
615  0$aAerospace engineering.
615  0$aAstronautics.
615  0$aSpace sciences.
615  0$aHistory.
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615 24$aAerospace Technology and Astronautics.
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