Photographing America's First Astronauts : Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics Series .
- Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics Series .
Cover -- PHOTOGRAPHING AMERICA'S FIRST ASTRONAUTS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- About the Photography -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Steps to Space -- 2. The People of Mercury -- 3. Alan Shepard/Mercury-Redstone 3 -- 4. Gus Grissom/Mercury-Redstone 4 -- 5. John Glenn/Mercury-Atlas 6 -- 6. Deke Slayton/Destiny Delayed -- 7. Scott Carpenter/Mercury-Atlas 7 -- 8. Wally Schirra/Mercury-Atlas 8 -- 9. Gordon Cooper/Mercury-Atlas 9 -- 10. Beyond Mercury -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- About Bill Taub -- About the Authors.