Featuring more than 600 photos, Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the relatively limited number of photos released by NASA. This book, however, showcases hundreds of never-before-seen images of America’s first manned space program by NASA’s first staff photographer, Bill Taub. Taub went everywhere with the Mercury astronauts, capturing their daily activities from 1959 to 1963. As a result, his photos provide a unique and intimate behind-the-scenes look at the people and operations of Project Mercury in real time.
Drawing on Taub’s recently discovered archive of thousands of black-and-white and color prints, slides, and transparencies, this is the first book to comprehensively visually document Project Mercury. No previous book has devoted as many images to each of the Mercury Seven astronauts and their pioneering spaceflights. Other chapters cover astronaut selection and training, NASA management, and facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption. The foreword is by legendary NASA Flight Director Eugene Kranz.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by Eugene Kranz
Introduction
About the Photography
Acknowledgments
1. Steps to Space
2. The People of Mercury
3. Alan Shepard/Mercury-Redstone 3
4. Gus Grissom/Mercury-Redstone 4
5. John Glenn/Mercury-Atlas 6
6. Deke Slayton/Destiny Delayed
7. Scott Carpenter/Mercury-Atlas 7
8. Wally Schirra/Mercury-Atlas 8
9. Gordon Cooper/Mercury-Atlas 9
10. Beyond Mercury
Abbreviations
Bibliography
About Bill Taub
About the Authors
Circa l’autore
Eugene Kranz was NASA’s second chief flight director, serving during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He also directed the successful efforts by Mission Control to save the crew of Apollo 13. Kranz is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and his role as a flight controller during Mercury is illustrated in this book.
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