Spaceshots and snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini : a rare photographic history / John Bisney, J.L. Pickering.

By:

Bisney, John, 1954- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Pickering, J. L, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: MWT11668312Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource : color illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780826352637
0826352634

Other title:

Mercury & Gemini
Mercury and Gemini

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Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als:: A rare photographic historyDDC classification:

629.45/4 23

LOC classification:

TL789.8.U6 M425 2015

Online resources:

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Contents:

Mercury-Redstone 3 -- Mercury-Redstone 4 -- Mercury-Atlas 6 -- Mercury-Atlas 7 -- Mercury-Atlas 8 -- Mercury-Atlas 9 -- Gemini 3 -- Gemini IV -- Gemini V -- Gemini VII and Gemini VI-A -- Gemini VIII -- Gemini IX-A -- Gemini X -- Gemini XI -- Gemini XII.

Summary: The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Earth before splashing down in the Bahamas. Over the next twenty years astronauts emerged as national heroes. This book tells the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini with hundreds of unpublished and rare photographs-both color and black-and-white. Unlike other publications, which illustrate the space race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of over one hundred thousand (and growing) high-quality photos of the early US manned space program. Collected over a lifetime from public and private sources-including NASA archives, fellow collectors, retired NASA and news photographers, and auction houses-the images document American space missions of the Cold War era more comprehensively than ever before. Devoting a chapter to each flight, the authors also include detailed descriptions, providing new insight into one of America's greatest triumphs.

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The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above Earth before splashing down in the Bahamas. Over the next twenty years astronauts emerged as national heroes. This book tells the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini with hundreds of unpublished and rare photographs-both color and black-and-white. Unlike other publications, which illustrate the space race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of over one hundred thousand (and growing) high-quality photos of the early US manned space program. Collected over a lifetime from public and private sources-including NASA archives, fellow collectors, retired NASA and news photographers, and auction houses-the images document American space missions of the Cold War era more comprehensively than ever before. Devoting a chapter to each flight, the authors also include detailed descriptions, providing new insight into one of America's greatest triumphs.

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