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SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS SIGMA 7 - COLIN BURGESS...

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally
Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7  the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut
which explores his entire life and accomplishments. This continues the Pioneers in Early
Spaceflight series  the volumes of which form an excellent record of Project Mercury's
pioneering early phase of the Space Age. Schirra's pre-NASA life is examined  as well as his
training as a NASA astronaut and for his Mercury MA-8 flight. The 6-orbit flight of Sigma 7 is
fully covered from its origins through to the spacecraft's safe recovery from the ocean after a
highly successful Mercury mission. Schirra's participation on the Gemini 6 and Apollo 7
missions is also told  but in brief  and the book also relates his post-NASA life and
activities through to his passing in 2007. The Mercury Seven occupy a unique spot in the
history of human spaceflight  and Schirra is atlast given his due as one of the contributing
astronauts in this painstakingly researched book.

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