Project Mercury: Nasa's First Manned Space Programme (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781852334062)

Project Mercury will offer a developmental resume of the first American manned spaceflight programme and its associated infrastructure, including accounts of space launch vehicles. The book highlights the differences in Redstone/Atlas technology, drawing similar comparisons between ballistic capsules and alternative types of spacecraft. The book also covers astronaut selection and training, as well as tracking systems, flight control, basic principles of spaceflight and detailed accounts of individual flights.

Author: John Catchpole
ISBN-10: 1852334061
ISBN-13: 9781852334062
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2001
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.96lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.50w x 1.38d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2002 pg. 1443