Name: Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom (en Inglés)
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Author: Burgess, Colin
ISBN: 9783319043906

portada Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Colin Burgess

Editorial

Springer

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

275

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.4 x 17.0 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9783319043906

N° edición

2014th

Categorías

Astronomía, espacio y tiempo
Astrofísica
Tecnología aeroespacial y aeronáutica
Astronáutica

Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom (en Inglés)

Colin Burgess (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom (en Inglés)"

NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil ('Gus') Grissom piloting the spacecraft to a successful splashdown, followed by the premature blowing of the craft's explosive hatch. After a hurried exit and struggling to stay afloat, he could only watch helplessly as the recovery helicopter pilot valiantly fought a losing battle to save the sinking capsule. That day NASA not only lost a spacecraft but came perilously close to losing one of its Mercury astronauts, a decorated Korean fighter pilot from Indiana who might one day have soared to the highest goal of them all, as the first person to set foot on the Moon. For the first time, many of those closest to the flight of Liberty Bell 7 and astronaut Gus Grissom offer their stories and opinions on the dramatic events of July 21, 1961, and his later pioneering Gemini mission. They also tell of an often controversial life cut tragically and horrifically short in a launch pad fire that shocked the nation.