For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut by Scott Carpenter, Kristen Stoever

For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut

Scott Carpenter, Kristen Stoever

384 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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M. Scott Carpenter was America's fourth man in space, his 1962 three-orbit mission in a tiny Mercury capsule closely paralleling that of John Glenn's previous mission. But that's where the similarities end: a malfunctioning navigational system cau...

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