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SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS FRIENDSHIP 7 - COLIN BU...

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.

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