9780151004676-0151004676-For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut

For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut

ISBN-13: 9780151004676
ISBN-10: 0151004676
Edition: 1
Author: Scott Carpenter, Kris Stoever
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780151004676
ISBN-10: 0151004676
Edition: 1
Author: Scott Carpenter, Kris Stoever
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut (ISBN-13: 9780151004676 and ISBN-10: 0151004676), written by authors Scott Carpenter, Kris Stoever, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Scientists, Professionals & Academics, United States History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Astronomy & Space Science) books. You can easily purchase or rent For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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Coming from a family of early Colorado pioneers, astronaut Scott Carpenter grew up with a vibrant frontier tradition of exploration. He went on to become one of seven Project Mercury astronauts to take part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. Here he writes of the pioneering science, training, and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7.

Carpenter also shares a family story of tenderness and fortitude. Raised by his grandparents in Boulder, Colorado, while his mother lay sick for years with tuberculosis, Carpenter witnessed bravery, love, sacrifice, and endurance that prepared him for life as a Navy pilot during two wars, service to country as a Mercury astronaut, and finally as a pioneering underwater explorer.

Written with his daughter, Kris Stoever, For Spacious Skies tells a wonderful American family story filled with never-before-told insider tales from the earliest days of NASA and, for the first time ever, Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown.

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