Friendship 7 (Springer Praxis Books) (Space Exploration)

by Colin Burgess

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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...

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  • ISBN10 3319156543
  • ISBN13 9783319156545
  • Publish Date 1 January 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Springer International Publishing
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 293
  • Language English