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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
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by Francis French, Colin Burgess, and Paul Haney
Sales Rank: 192773
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$13.47
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on 6-19-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 402 pages
Published by: University of Nebraska Press April 23, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0803211465
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803211469
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 1.7 pounds
From Booklist
Longer on biography than on technology, this account of the first space farers will appeal to spaceflight buffs. And in a subject densely populated with memoirs by its principal figures, French and Burgess have generated new material from their own interviews with some of the pioneering astronauts and cosmonauts. In addition, the authors incorporate the recollections of nurse Dee O'Hara, who worked with the Mercury astronauts, and of American aviatrixes involved in a program, little known today, that might have but ultimately did not produce the first female in space. That accolade more famously went in 1963 to Valentina Tereshkova, whose upbringing, attraction to aeronautics, life-changing flight, and postflight career represent the pattern in which the authors present the dozen-plus individuals who structure their text. Tracking the firsts in space history, like Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, followed by the seconds, such as Gherman Titov and Virgil Grissom, French and Burgess' history will engage the space-program audience. A sequel is slated for publication later in 2007, covering the years 1965-69. Gilbert Taylor
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Product Review
Wally Schirra : "This frank, entertaining, no-holds-barred ride through the golden age of space flight takes us behind the official stories, into the real lives of the very first astronauts and cosmonauts."-Wally Schirra: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut
Wally Funk : "As well as vividly picturing the men, this book also accurately tells the story of the very first women to train for spaceflight in Russia-and women like me in America who hoped for the same opportunity to reach for the stars."-Wally Funk, rocket pilot for Interorbital Systems Corporation
Dee O'Hara : "Unforgettable days and some unforgettable characters were brought vividly back to me by this truly wonderful book. They were fun times; they were also incredibly difficult, hard-working, and agonizing times, watching dear friends launch into space with my heart in my mouth. This book offers a treasure trove of memories."-Dee O'Hara, nurse to the astronauts
Booklist : "French and Burgess's history will engage the space-program audience."-Booklist
Blogcritics.org : "Into That Silent Sea is an great reminder of just what Gagarin and other trailblazers did and how they became international celebrities in their own right. We seem to have forgotten just how new the frontier of space was. . . . Many people today seem to view space programs as an extravagance or with disinterest. For those who remain interested in those programs and have read the prior histories and memoirs, it never hurts to be reminded of just how pioneering the first steps were."-Tim Gebhart, Blogcritics.org, Boston.com
The Space Review (website) : "Francis French and Colin Burgess don't have any special hooks or other gimmicks in Into That Silent Sea; instead, they simply offer a well-written account about the Americans and Russians who were the first to fly into space. . . . The book . . . offer[s] some great profiles of these individuals that are accessible to both newcomers to space history and well-read enthusiasts alike."-The Space Review
Martin Collins Air & Space Smithsonian : "[An] eminently readable, well-crafted contribution to the burgeoning genre of first-person accounts and popular histories of space explorers. . . . The merits of this popular history rest in the elegant narrative and the authors'' thoughtful awareness of the space explorer genre."-Air & Space Smithsonian
Reader Reviews
I grew up in the American manned space program so tend to be somewhat jaded by some of the "outsider" accounts of what went on in the early years. But this book was full of pleasant surprises with both lesser-known facts about the well-recognized astronauts and detailed important information about the lesser-known, such as the cosmonauts and those who wanted to become astronauts. The book humanized the Russian program as well as our own. This is the first social history of that narrow time frame that I have seen. There were enough engineering facts to make sense out of what was going on at the time, but focused more on the personal lives of the trailblazers and the impact they made on society. I would highly recommend this to space buffs, historians and sociologists. I was especially interested in the cosmonaut stories and the chapter about the two Wallys.
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