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Project Mercury: NASA's first manned space programme

2002; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 39; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.39-4552

1943-5975

John Catchpole,

Planetary Science and Exploration

Part 1. Genesis: 1. Preparing for War. 2. Dreaming of Space. 3. The Satellite Race. 4. Defining the Frontier. 5. New Broom.- Part 2. Infrastructure: 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2. Astronauts. 3. Flight Operations Division. 4. World Wide Tracking Network. 5. Recovery.- Part 3. Hardware: 1. Mercury Spacecraft. 2. Pressure Suit. 3. Mercury-Little Joe. 4. Mercury-Scout. 5. Mercury-Redstone. 6. Mercury-Atlas.- Part 4. Individual Flight Accounts.- Part 5. Results: 1. Scientific experiments. 2. Project Mercury in Retrospect. 3. Project Mercury as a First Step. 4. Alternative Paths. 5. Appendix.