Selecting the mercury seven the search for America's first astronauts

Selecting the mercury seven the search for America's first astronauts

In January 1959, after an exhaustive search through military service records, a number of Americas elite test pilots received orders to attend a series of top-secret briefings in Washington, D.C. These briefings were designed to assist in selecting a group of astronauts for the newly formed National...

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Autor Principal: Burgess, Colin 1947-
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electronic Resource
Idioma:English
Publicado: New York, NY Springer 2011.
Series:Springer praxis books
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History.
Project Mercury (U.S.) > History.
Astronauts > History. > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en liña:Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access