This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (Annotated and Illustrated)

This book is an amazingly detailed account of NASA’s Project Mercury Program from initial conception through project completion. When the Congress created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, it charged NASA with the responsibility "to contribute materially to . . . the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space" and "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results ther...