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Americans Into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury

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Good read about the Mercury program, written shortly after its completion. Supplemented by great photos from the time and published before other spaceflight operations, it is a great read for anyone interested in space exploration in any capacity.

Author(s): Gene Gurney
Series: U.S. Landmark Books
Publisher: Random House
Year: 1965

Language: English
Pages: 194
City: New York NY
Tags: NASA Project Mercury

01 Project Mercury Sends a Man Into Space
02 Why Do We Explore Space
03 Space Exploration Begins
04 Project Mercury
05 The Equipment for Exploring Space
06 Choosing The Mercury Astronaut
07 The Mercury Astronauts
08 The Mercury Astronauts Get Ready to Explore Space
09 Test Shots for Project Mercury
10 Other United States Space Projects
11 The Soviet Union's Space Program
12 Countdown
13 Three Times Around the Earth
14 After Project Mercury
Selected List of Satellites and Probes
Glossary
Index