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A Portrait Of Mercury Seven Team Member Alan Shepard, America's First Man Into Space, Describes His Achievements As A Test Pilot, Competitive Nature, And Career-challenging Struggles With Illness. Part I. Before Space -- Chapter 1: Alan Was Really Kind Of A Loner -- Chapter 2: I Think I Love You -- Chapter 3: The Kamikazes Raised Hell Last Night -- Chapter 4: Unsafe For Solo In Zoom Town -- Chapter 5: A Perfectly Charming Son Of A Bitch -- Chapter 6: Shepard Should Be Court Martialed -- Chapter 7: Do You Wish To Declare An Emergency? -- Chapter 8: That Little Rascal. -- Part Ii. Into Space -- Chapter 9: We Made Them Heroes, The First Day They Were Picked -- Chapter 10: Eyeballs In, Eyeballs Out -- Chapter 11: A Harlot Of A Town -- Chapter 12: I Think I Got Myself In Trouble. -- Chapter 13: We Had 'em By The Short Hairs, And We Gave It Away. -- Chapter 14: Light This Candle! -- Chapter 15: We Choose To Go To The Moon. -- Chapter 16: I'm Sick ... Should I Just Hang It Up? -- Chapter 17: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Flying -- Much -- Chapter 18: Captain Shepard? ... I'm Charles Lindbergh. -- Chapter 19: What's Wrong With This Ship? -- Part Iii. After Space -- Chapter 20:
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- Author
- Neal Thompson
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780609610015
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Engineering, Historical Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (286 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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