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Amid a flurry of recent accounts of the early days of the U.S. space program, astronaut Carpenter and Stoever, his daughter, weigh in with a biography (most of it written jarringly in the third person) of the fourth American in space. While a good deal of factual information about Carpenter's life is presented, there is very little probing beneath the surface. Perhaps the most controversial material is Carpenter's discussion of the specifics of his three-orbit flight on May 24, 1962, which ended with the American public not knowing for hours whether Carpenter and his Mercury capsule Aurora 7 had survived re-entry. His take is very different from that offered last year by Chris Kraft (Flight: My Life in Mission Control). While the former mission controller claims that Carpenter "malfunctioned," Carpenter argues that he fulfilled his tasks admirably despite a series of mechanical failures on board the capsule. The third person voice is lively if not compelling, and though there is not very much new information about the early days of NASA here, one can get a flavor of the times and a sense of the people responsible for bringing America into the space age. [From Publishers Weekly via Scott Carpenter's website]
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Astronauts, Biography, History, Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flights, Astronautics, biography, Space flightPlaces
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For spacious skies: the uncommon journey of a Mercury astronaut
2004, New American Library
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For spacious skies: the uncommon journey of a Mercury astronaut
2003, Thorndike Press
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For spacious skies: the uncommon journey of a Mercury astronaut
2002, Harcourt
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