CARPENTER, M. Scott; L. Gordon Cooper Jr.; John H. Glenn Jr.; Virgil I. Grissom; Walter M. Schirra Jr.; Alan B. Shepard Jr.; Donald K. Slayton.
We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves.
First Edition of the Project Mercury astronauts' WE SEVEN; SIGNED by Scott Carpenter
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
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Item Number: RRB-148461
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First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of America’s manned space program. Octavo, original half-cloth, top stain orange, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Mercury Seven Astronaut Scott Carpenter on the second front free endpaper, "Scott Carpenter Aurora 7." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
“The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort… In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercury’s spirit and Atlas’ strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean, they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology and history had prepared for them” (Swenson, Grimwood & Alexander, 164-65). We Seven chronicles the beginnings of American manned space exploration from the perspectives of those who pioneered it, with each member of Project Mercury contributing at least three essay-length sections.
We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves.
$400.00
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