Results Of The Third United States Manned and 39 similar items

RESULTS OF THE THIRD UNITED STATES MANNED ORBITAL SPACE FLIGHT - OCTOBER 3, 1962 Manned Spacecraft Center, Project Mercury 7.75" x 10.25", 120 pages staple bound booklet, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Publication SP-12, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1962 This document presents the results of the third United States manned orbital space flight conducted on October 3, 1962. The performance discussions of the spacecraft and launch-vehicle systems, the flight control personnel, and the astronaut Wally Schirra, together with a detailed analysis of the medical aspects of the flight, form a continuation of the information previously published for the first two United States manned orbital flights, conducted on February 20 and May 24, 1962, and the two manned suborbital space flights. Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 ? May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. The booklet is complete and in VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear.