Friendship 7: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 3 [Paperback]

Robert Godwin (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Apogee Books Space Series | Publication Date: April 1, 1999

Taken directly from the NASA archives, these documents track John Glenn's first mission into space on Friendship 7.

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Robert Godwin, Editor

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896522602
• ISBN-13: 978-1896522609
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #732,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent in-depth look at first US orbital mission, April 27, 1999

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This review is from: Friendship 7: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 3 (Paperback)

If you're a space-junkie, you will definitely want this book. Included are in-depth technical drawings, the complete ground-to-space communciations log of the mission, lots of great color photos, plus a CD-ROM with official NASA video of the Friendship 7 flight. Find out what made John Glenn such an enduring icon of this century. A wonderful glimpse into the early days of the space race.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What an era!, February 27, 2002

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Darren Osborne - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friendship 7: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 3 (Paperback)

As I mentioned in my review of the Apollo 11 book in this series, I bought this for the CD-ROM. The video documentary is excellent. It even features footage of the old tracking stations at Muchea and Woomera in Australia.

This was a great moment in the 'space race' and it fascinating to flick through the drawing and plans. The debriefing is also interesting...what were those fireflys?

Well worth your investment.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Key reference to a key mission, February 15, 2001

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Kevin W. Parker (Greenbelt, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendship 7: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 3 (Paperback)

From the climax of the manned spaceflight program I go to the beginning, and quite a change it is. The heart of this collection are a series of reports compiled about every aspect of John Glenn's brief but historic flight, covering the whole thing in excrutiating detail-after all, no one had done anything like this before. (Gene Kranz is coauthor of one of them.) It even includes a transcript of all the air-to-ground communications throughout the entire mission, not something that could be done very easily for Apollo. Another key reference book for the true spaceophile.