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This new ocean: a history of Project Mercury by Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., James M. Grimwood [and] Charles C. Alexander is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 thereof." NASA wisely interpreted this mandate to include responsibility for documenting the epochal progress of which it is the focus. The result has been the development of a historical program by NASA as unprecedented as the task of extending man's mobility beyond his planet. This volume is not only NASA's accounting of its obligation to disseminate information to our current generation of Americans. It also fulfills, as do all of NASA's future-oriented scientific-technological activities, the further obligation to document the present as the heritage of the future. The wide-ranging NASA history program includes chronicles of day-to-day space activities; specialized studies of particular fields wi

Author

Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., James M. Grimwood [and] Charles C. Alexander

Publisher

[Washington, Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]]

Published

1966

Language

EN

Subjects

Engineering, History, Stem

Rating

4.2 / 5 (129 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14