• Americans into Orbit by Gene Gurney, 1962 Landmark hardcover - front cover
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  • Americans into Orbit by Gene Gurney, 1962 Landmark hardcover - frontispiece and title page
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Americans into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury

Americans into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury

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Book Notes: Ex-library copy from the Harmanus Bleecker Library, Children's Department: spine label and "Withdrawn" stamp on the front free endpaper. Water staining on the front endpapers and a large brown stain on at least one text page. Binding tight. Cloth heavily worn: rubbing, soiling and frayed corners, worn through at the lower front corner. Yellowed tape strip across the top of the photo panel on the front cover. Light spotting elsewhere.

Author(s): Gene Gurney
Edition: Landmark Books

Publication year: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Random House

Condition: Acceptable
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A young readers' history of Project Mercury, opening at Cape Canaveral on the morning of May 5, 1961. Chapters cover why we explore space, the equipment, how the Mercury astronauts were chosen and trained, test shots, other U.S. space projects, the Soviet space program and the flight "Three Times around the Earth."

Includes a list of satellites and probes, a glossary and an index. Illustrated with photographs. A Random House Landmark Book.

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