We Seven
by M. Scott Carpenter, Jr. L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Jr. Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Alan B. Shepard, Donald K. Slayton
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Author: Donald K. Slayton, Jr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr. John H. Glenn, Jr. L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Walter M. Schirra, M. Scott Carpenter, Virgil I. GrissomEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1962
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 375
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Summary: 5 Stars
Published as Project Mercury was thrilling the Free World at the height of the cold war, WE SEVEN was written by the original seven astronauts (and edited by LIFE magazine's John Dille). For researchers and space enthusiasts, the chapters offer valuable contemporaneous, first-person accounts of Project Mercury--from the men, to the machines, to the systems.
Particularly valuable are the accounts of the historic 1959 selection process (and selection medicine) at Lovelace Clinic and Wright-Patterson A.F.B. There are painstakingly technical accounts of the engineering and design work on the hardware in addition to first-person accounts of spaceflight itself, from the days when astronauts flew alone and then only briefly--for a lifetime of fame.
First military tests pilots and then engineers, the Mercury astronauts were not professional writers. The editor does a brilliant job of preserving the distinctive voices of the individual astronauts, while showcasing the highly technical subjects the men describe in WE SEVEN, a bestseller when it was first published in 1962.
A must for any spaceflight history library.
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