Burgess

(n).first certif.gold.tchs-profesornova edicion editado por Longman

Inevitably, there are times in a nation?s history when its hopes, fears and con?dence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the con?nes of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Fre...

Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. ?Moon Bound? complements the author?s recently published work, ?Selecting the Mercury Seven? (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch ...

This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.