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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2017
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9781543453782
EAN-Code:	9781543453782
Verlag:	Xlibris
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 15 mm
Gewicht:	424 gr
Seiten:	258
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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"We set sail on this new sea . . ." On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced America's first astronauts to the press-Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a final group of thirty-two candidates. But the real truth of NASA's search for America's best pilots is not found in the thirty-two finalists that eventually produced Project Mercury's heroic list of space pioneers. The Original Seven Mercury astronauts chosen to lead America's charge into a new frontier were certainly worthy. They were America's best and brightest. But perhaps the very best never got the chance and served his country in obscurity.