Mankind in the past few years has sailed on one of its greatest adventures; the exploration of near space. Men have cast off their physical and mental moorings to Earth; and a few have learned to live in balance with their gravisphere and above their atmosphere. Transgressing old laws of terrestrial navigation and amending newer laws of aerodynamics; man has combined the experience gained from aviation and rocket technology with the science of celestial mechanics; thus to accomplish for the first time manned orbital circumnavigation. The initial American voyages in this new epic of exploration and discovery were products of Project Mercury; an intensive national program mobilizing creative science and technology to orbit and retrieve a manned Earth satellite. This book is an attempt to describe the origins; preparation; and nature of America’s first achievements in manned space flight. Neither a history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) nor a comparative study of the competition in space between the United States and the Soviet Union; this narrative spans the basic events in the managerial and technological history of Project Mercury.
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