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Following up on Colin Burgess's other books on the Mercury manned missions, this continues the complete history of NASA's nascent spaceflight program. Each Mercury flight forms a key part of the organization's early years. The story of Aurora 7 is retold here using in-depth research that fully contextualizes the project and reveals new aspects of the early days of space exploration. After successfully launching suborbital Mercury missions as well as the first orbital spaceflight in Friendship 7, NASA continued with Aurora 7, flown by Malcolm Scott Carpenter, which landed 260 miles from the recovery vessel, the USS Intrepid, after a series of technical issues. This would be Carpenter's only spaceflight, yet the three orbital missions did manage to complete several useful experiments.
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