Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319305638
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and Gemini programs and served as head of flight crew operations in both the Apollo and Skylab programs. Based on extensive research and first-person interviews, this is a complete history of the Faith 7 flight and its astronaut. Cooper later gained notoriety following the release of the movie, The Right Stuff, in which he was depicted by Dennis Quaid, but Burgess discovers there was even more drama to his story. It completes the "Pioneers in Early Spaceflight" subseries in fitting fashion.

Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1304

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Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Category : Acceleration (Physiology)
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1052

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Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Jennifer K. Levasseur
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557539332
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s. This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography’s impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.