Project Mercury

by Eugen Reichl

Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the newly created spaceflight organization, developed a space transport system with orbital capsule and booster rockets. They used it to send Alan Shepard on a first suborbital "jump" into space in May 1961, and in February...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764350692
• ISBN13: 9780764350696
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"