Liberty Bell 7 The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom /

NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was neve...

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Main Author: Burgess, Colin. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Space Exploration
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04391-3
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