Rocket Man

We set sail on this new sea . . . On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced America's first astronauts to the press--Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a final group of thirty-two candidates. But the real truth of NASA's search for America's best pilots is not found in the thirty-two finalists that eventually produced Project Mercury's heroic list of space pioneers. The Original Seven Mercury astronauts chosen to lead America's charge into a new frontier were certainly worthy. They were America's best and brightest. But perhaps the very best never got the chance and served his country in obscurity.

• | Author: Earl Perkins
• | Publisher: Xlibris
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1543453775
• | ISBN-13: 9781543453775