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Indlæser... We Sevenaf M. Scott Carpenter, Malcolm Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., Leroy Gordon Cooper — 10 mere, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Virgil Ivan Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Walter Marty Schirra, Alan Shepard, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Alan Bartlett Shepard, Donald K. Slayton, Donald Kent Slayton
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A collection of memoirs "by THE ASTRONAUTS themselves" (it says so on the cover) from the original Mercury 7 in 1962. A fascinating historical account of their backgrounds (including John Glenn's Korean war stories), training (including the MASTIF device in Cleveland that spins you on three axes simultaneously - even the expression head over heels doesn't do it justice), technical information about the capsule and boosters (you have to keep reminding yourself what they called a computer was in the early 60s), and tense descriptions of the ballistic and orbital missions with all of the various human and mechanical malfunctions. Not that easy to read since the authors were engineers and all had the same outlook, and the book must have passed through some editor or ghostwriter's hands since there is a slightly numbing uniformity. ( ) I really enjoyed this book. Lengthy descriptions of so many aspects of getting humans into space. This was the Mercury Project from the point of view of the initial seven astronauts selected, from 1959 to 1962, and covered the first four Americans in Space. From the psychology tests to lying in a capsule, absolutely gripping reading. I wished the book carried on to the end of the project to include the last two manned flights. I found it useful to watch the old period videos of television coverage at the time. Sometimes it seemed I was learning rocket-science. I wonder what the "Voss Meter" actually looked like? Interesting to compare this book to "Starman : Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin", some major obvious similarities, but We Seven is much more detailed and personal. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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 We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts including 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. No library descriptions found. |
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