posted 04-16-2010 11:59 AM               

NASA's official history of Project Mercury, America's effort to get a man into space. Covers the development of the rocket boosters, the selection and training of the astronauts, the design of the Mercury spacecraft, the test launches, and all six manned Mercury flights, including Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit.

• Paperback: 472 pages
  
• Publisher: Red and Black Publishers (April 5, 2010)
  
• ISBN-10: 1934941875
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1934941874

We are an extremely small publishing company that specializes in books about history. We found a version of "This New Ocean" online a while ago and, since it is an official US government publication that is not under copyright, we decided to reprint it because it is an important part of history.

Sadly, because we are such a small company with very limited distribution, we do not expect that it will print more than a very few copies a month. But we felt the work was of historical importance and should at least be made available and kept in print.