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| Title | Into Orbit |
| Author | Glenn, John et. al. |
| Asset Number | 00307 |
| Publisher | Time Inc. |
| ISBN | |
| Published Date | 1962 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 1 |
| Description | Light blue cloth hardcover with clipped dust jacket.
Into Orbit - Project Mercury.
241 p. Includes illustrations. photographic plates, illustrations, map Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on February 20, 1962, was the first American flight to achieve this goal. The program included 20 unmanned launches, followed by two suborbital and four orbital flights with astronaut pilots. The project name came from Mercury, a Roman mythological god often seen as a symbol of speed. Mercury is also the name of the innermost planet of the Solar System, which moves faster than any other and hence provides an image of speed, although Project Mercury had no real connection to the planet. Project Mercury Astranauts; John Glenn; Scott Carpenter; Alan Shepard; Virgil Grissom; Gordon Cooper: Donald Slayton; Walter Schirra: |
| Category | Space Science |
| Epoch | Vintage |
| Date Acquired | 12/10/2021 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
