The last American hero the remarkable life of John Glenn
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a. rocket and soared into space. . . He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space tr...
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Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Review Press
[2021]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue
- Small-town boy
- Off to war
- Ol' Magnet Tail
- Racing toward space
- Around the world in 89 minutes
- Meanwhile on Earth...
- Superstar
- What's next?
- Glenn's friend, Robert Kennedy
- Introduction to political life
- The ebb and flow of political life
- Winning his wings again
- Epilogue