Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture into Space
by Virgil I. Grissom
Our Price: $51.30
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Virgil I. GrissomEdition: Hardcover
Published: 1968-05
ISBN: 0025458000
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Book Reviews of Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture into Space
Book Review: Astronaut Gus Grissom's Personal Experiences in Space Flight
Summary: 5 Stars
Virgil "Gus" Grissom recounts his experiences, starting with the early days of space flight. He writes about the dramatic sinking of his Mercury spacecraft, the Liberty Bell 7. [In recent years, the Liberty Bell 7 has been recovered from off of the ocean floor]. He then rounds out discussion of the remaining Mercury flights.
Grissom and Young flew on Gemini 3 in March 1965. Grissom devotes considerable detail to that flight. It was the pioneering flight of the Gemini Program, and was the very first time in history where a crew in a manned spacecraft deliberately changed the orbit of their spacecraft. He also discusses, in less detail, most of the remaining Gemini flights.
Unfortunately, Gus Grissom did not live to complete this book. He perished in the tragic Apollo 1 launch pad fire of January 1967. Betty Grissom, his widow, had to complete the final part of this book.
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Space Flight (Spaceflight) and Space Travel in Reality and in Fiction
Apollo 13by Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell
Mariner Books; Published: 2006-02-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.60
Price in other shops:
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13by Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell
Houghton Mifflin; Published: 1994-09-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $28.00
Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)Universal; Release date: 2005-03-29; DVD
Best price: $6.66
Price in other shops:
To The Moonby Michael Kapp
Time-Life Records,NY; Published: 0000; Hardcover; Book
Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture into Spaceby Virgil I. Grissom
Macmillan Publishing Company; Published: 1968-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $240.00
2001 - A Space OdysseyWarner Brothers; Release date: 2001-06-12; DVD
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2003-06-10; DVD
Best price: $14.98
Price in other shops:
Spaceby Andrew Chaikin
Carlton Books; Published: 2002-09; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.97
Price in other shops:
Spaceflightby Giles Sparrow
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd; Published: 2007-08-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $35.82
Price in other shops:
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moonby Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton
Turner Pub; Published: 1995-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.09
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Countdown: An Autobiography (Silver arrow books)by Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling
Silver Arrow; Published: 1988-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $49.97
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spacemanby Neal Thompson
Crown; Published: 2004-03-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.80
Price in other shops:
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)by Francis French, Colin Burgess
University of Nebraska Press; Published: 2007-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.80
Price in other shops:
In the Shadow of the MoonTHINKFILM LLC; Release date: 2008-02-22; DVD
Best price: $12.88
Price in other shops:
Magnificent Desolation - Walking on the Moon (IMAX)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-11-06; DVD
Best price: $7.50
Price in other shops:
Deke!: An Autobiographyby Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt
Forge Books; Published: 1995-06-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.75
Price in other shops:
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)by Francis French, Colin Burgess
University of Nebraska Press; Published: 2007-04-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.80
Price in other shops: