Project Mercury Familiarization Manual Manned Satellite Capsule
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935700685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Great manual" according to A. O. Fortuna. This is a reprint of the Mercury Manual. The quality is good, well worth the price as the ones on Ebay run into the hundreds.. "Everything you ever wanted to know" according to R. Prokop. The Mercury Space Capsule has long been my favorite manned spacecraft, and I'm old enough to remember Alan Shepard blasting off on his 15 minute suborbital flight in Freedom 7. I have been looking for some time now (unsuccessfully) to purchase a model of one, but this book is the next best thing for sure. Charts, circuit diagrams, mission sequences, cutaway diagrams, flow charts, you name it, are on almost every page of this exact reproduction of the familiariza. Memorabilia Must A lovely historical record of our first manned space missions.If you collect space memorabilia, this is a must for your collection.
On October 4, 1957 at 10:28 Moscow time, a rocket carrying the world's first orbiting satellite roared into space, signaling a new era in human history and the beginning of the so-called "space race" - an epic rivalry pitting the technological know-how of the Soviet Union against that of the United States. Originally restricted, this manual has been declassified and is presented in its entirety, running nearly 400 pages.. After a long series of test launches including a sub-orbital flight with the chimp Ham on board, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space. The next major milestone would be to put a human into orbit, a goal that defined the USA's Project Mercury. Despite some highly publicized failures, the USA managed to answer the Russians with the successful launch of Explorer 1 in January of 1958. Created by NASA and contractor McDonnell Aircraft, this Familiarization Manual explains all th