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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590783840
Picture-book biography of John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
Author : John Glenn,Nick Taylor
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553581577
He was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage reveted a nation. But these two historical events only bracketed a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century. John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events of the twentieth century. It is a story that begins with his childhood in Ohio where he learned the importance of family, community, and patriotism. He took these values with him as a marine fighter pilot during World War II and into the skies over Korea, for which he would be decorated. Always a gifted flier, it was during the war that he contemplated the unlimited possibilities of aviation and its frontiers. We see the early days of NASA, where he first served as a backup pilot for astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. In 1962 Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Then came several years in international business, followed by a twenty-four year career as a U.S. Senator-and in 1998 a return to space for his remarkable Discover mission at the age of seventy-seven.
Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319156545
In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration. A nation proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever enshrined in American spaceflight history. On the morning of February 20, 1962, following months of frustrating delays, a Marine Corps war hero and test pilot named John Glenn finally blazed a path into orbit aboard a compact capsule named Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions.
Author : Christopher C. Kraft
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aerospace engineers
ISBN : UOM:49015003159044
This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429961325
From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author : Jeff Shesol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324003250
A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the "hour of maximum danger."
Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823944603
Traces the life of the pioneering astronaut who later served as a United States senator from Ohio and, at the age of seventy-seven, returned to space as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery.
Author : The Editors of TIME
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683300588
Author : Jonathan Allday
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0750306459
Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. Using simple illustrations and school-level mathematics, Jonathan Allday explains the basic physics and technology of spaceflight and conveys the huge technological strides that were made and the dedication of the people working on the program. Physics topics covered include the laws of motion, rocketry, how to maneuver in orbit, and more. Informal and engaging, the book also discusses the designs of the Apollo Command, Service and Lunar modules and how these changed as the plans for the manned mission evolved. Guidance systems, computers, and engines all had to be developed for the first time. With Apollo as background, the book proceeds to look at the space shuttle, the technology being developed for its replacement, the International Space Station, and the possibilities for a manned Mars mission. The book concludes with an exploration of the far future, including Mars colonies and journeys to other stars.
Author : Sneed B. Collard
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761430660
"A juvenile biography of John Glenn, American astronaut"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert Green
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Astronauts
ISBN : 9781438111957
John Glenn : Astronaut and U.S. Senator examines the life and career of the first American to orbit Earth in a spacecraft.
Author : Andrew Chaikin
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588344861
In February 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Since then John Herschel Glenn Jr. has stood in the popular imagination as a quintessentially American hero. In John Glenn: America's Astronaut, a special edition e-book featuring 45 stunning photographs as well as a video, Chaikin explores Glenn's path to greatness. John Glenn features new details on Glenn's selection as an astronaut in 1959, newly synchronized onboard film and audio of Glenn's harrowing reentry from orbit on his 1962 Mercury mission, rarely seen images of Glenn in orbit and from the John Glenn archives at Ohio State University, as well as new, touching reminiscenes of Glenn's 1998 return to space from his Space Shuttle crewmates. Glenn is the embodiment of the history of human spaceflight and the indefatigable American spirit, and John Glenn: America's Astronaut is his amazing story.
Author : Lt.-Col. Philip N. Pierce
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789124293
AT 9:47 on the morning of February 20, 1962, American life came to a breathless halt as millions paused to listen and watch while a mighty rocket hurled a man-carrying capsule into orbit around the earth. The successful flight and safe return of Marine Astronaut Lt.-Col. John Herschel Glenn, Jr., have given his name a luster that few other American names have ever achieved. But John Glenn is more than a name. He is a dedicated maker of history who modestly believes that his God-given talents, and his ability and opportunity to use them, are his destiny—indeed his duty to his country and the world. Here, written by men who know him, is the biography of that remarkable man and his historic flight.
Author : Amy Shira Teitel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472911193
The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, and was taken to America where he began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA.
Author : William John Bennett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595551115
Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom.