Mercury rising : John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War /

"A riveting history of the momentous Friendship 7 space 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 mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shesol, Jeff (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Project Mercury (U.S.) Space flights. Space race > United States. Friendship 7 (Spacecraft) Glenn, John, > 1921-2016. Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Influence. Astronautics and state > United States > History > 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The nearest to heaven I will ever get
Supersonic
Red moonlight
Zero G
A seven-sided coin
Second in space
Suspended animation
The problems of men on Earth
The first man
Go or no go
Holocaust or humiliation
Talking our extinction to death
Contingencies
The big scrub
Godspeed, John Glenn
A real fireball
The big lift
Escape velocity.