We Seven : By the Astronauts Themselves

The heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for Americas first manned space voyages.

Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASAs manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts including Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slaytontake you behind the scenes of this pioneering programeven into the space capsules themselves.

Featuring fascinating firsthand accounts and black-and-white photographs throughoutthe astronauts describe the exhilarating launches, hair-raising challenges, and incredible successes of Project Mercuryfrom breaking through the earths atmosphere to panicking when a hatch blows. But Project Mercury was more than the heroism of individual missions. In We Seven, Americas original astronauts share with usas only they canthe hopes and dreams of the US at the dawn of a new era.