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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
For Spacious Skies For Spacious Skies M. Scott Carpenter Amid a flurry of recent accounts of the early days of the U.S. space program, astronaut Carpenter and Stoever, his daughter, weigh in with a biography (most of it written jarringly in the third perso… OL2460426W
Project Mercury Project Mercury Diane M. Sipiera Describes early space exploration and the six missions of Project Mercury that constituted America's first step toward the moon. OL2628164W
Lost spacecraft Lost spacecraft Curt Newport The details my expedition to find and recover Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft from 16,000 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean. Also included are descriptions of Project Mercury, the i… OL6073515W
The Mercury 13 The Mercury 13 Martha Ackmann In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at… OL8036780W