Moon Bound Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts /

• Main Author: Burgess, Colin. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Science > History.; Astronomy.; Mathematics.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3855-7

Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. Moon Bound complements the authors recently published work, Selecting the Mercury Seven (2011),...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Announcements and volunteers
• Screening the applicants
• The finalists
• The "Next Nine"
• Settling in
• Part II The boy from Barren Run
• Answering the call
• A few exceptionally good men
• The Fourteen
• Patience and Persistence
• "Before this decade is out"
• For some, the glory
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.