We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

by L. Gordon Cooper Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Wally Schirra, et al.

Book Overview

The heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America's first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASA's manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts including Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton--take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439181039
• ISBN13: 9781439181034
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"