Alan Shepard Project Mercury (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. America's First Spaceman by Jewel Spangler Smaus and Charles B. Spangler. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. 159 pages. Stated "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page. An early biography of Alan B. Shepard Jr., published the year after Shepard became the first American to travel into space aboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. Written by Jewel Spangler Smaus and Charles B. Spangler, the book traces Shepard's life from his childhood in East Derry, New Hampshire, through Annapolis, his wartime and naval aviation experiences, test-pilot training, selection as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and ultimately his historic Freedom 7 mission. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, including material drawn from the Shepard family collection. Published during the earliest years of the American human spaceflight program, making it an appealing period piece from the Project Mercury era rather than a later retrospective biography. Bound in the publisher's original hardcover binding and retaining the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Albert Orbaan, featuring Shepard in his Mercury pressure suit and the Freedom 7 capsule. The original $2.50 price remains intact on the front flap. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket, based on the photographs shown. The book appears well preserved with expected light age toning. Original dust jacket remains substantially complete and retains strong red, blue and black coloring, with general rubbing and edge wear, small chips and short tears at the extremities, and some wear along the spine. Most notably, there is an area of surface abrasion/paper loss on the upper-right portion of the front jacket panel, affecting the red field but not the title lettering or astronaut image. Additional smaller areas of rubbing and surface wear are present. Original $2.50 price remains intact on the front flap. Jacket is housed in a clear protective cover. Interior pages shown appear clean and well preserved. Please refer to photographs for condition. An appealing first edition from the dawn of the American space program, documenting Alan Shepard and Project Mercury only one year after his historic flight.…

Photograph. Condition: Good. Contemporary reproduction. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9.5 inches by 5.5 inches. The top margin has the text "NASA Project Mercury Astronauts". The bottom margin has facsimile signatures of each of the astronauts. Internet research indicates that this photograph is of the 7 astronauts inspecting a model of the Mercury launch vehicle and capsule. This research indicates this photograph, a very famous one, often reproduced, was taken at the NASA Langley Research Center on April 30, 1959. Photograph has some edge wear and soiling but the image and signatures are clear and clean. This copy is not on photographic paper stock and bears no NASA identification number or other agency markings (other than the word NASA in the title). Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1. Their names were publicly announced by NASA on April 9, 1959. These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The Mercury Seven created a new profession in the United States, and established the image of the American astronaut for decades to come. All of the Mercury Seven eventually flew in space. They piloted the six spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and members of the group flew on all of the NASA human spaceflight programs of the 20th century - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961, and later walked on the Moon on Apollo 14 in 1971. Grissom flew Mercury and Gemini missions, but died in 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire; the others all survived past retirement from service. Schirra flew Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission, in Grissom's place. Slayton, grounded with an atrial fibrillation, ultimately flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Glenn became the first American in orbit in 1962, and flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 to become, at age 77, the oldest person to fly in space. He was the last living member of the Mercury Seven when he died in 2016 at the age of 95.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Alan Shepard | Project Mercury, Mercury-Redstone 3, Project Gemini, Apollo 14, Moon Shot, List of Apollo Astronauts, USS Cogswell (DD-651), Mercury Seven, USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE-3) | Frederic P. Miller (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786130095956 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early manned space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program. It was planned as a three-day extended mission, to launch in late 1963; the spacecraft, Freedom 7-II, would have been flown by Alan Shepard, a veteran of the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 mission in 1961. However, it was cancelled after the success of the one-day Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963, to allow NASA to focus its efforts on the more advanced two-man Gemini program.…