FLY ME TO THE MOON: MERCURY GENERATION by BRYAN ETHIER/NASA/SCARCE 1999 1st - $36 - (Harpers Ferry, WV)
FLY ME TO THE MOON: LOST IN SPACE WITH THE MERCURY GENERATION. BY BRYAN ETHIER. FOREWORD BY WALLY SCHIRRA, MERCURY ASTRONAUT. Tampa, Florida : McGregor Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Scarce. A solid and attractive scarce book. From the dust jacket: "The night a nation sat transfixed in front of its TV sets as the crew of Apollo XI landed on the moon... The day you resolved to one day become an astronaut, like the heroes you watched on TV... The 10-year-old kid who transformed a plain refrigerator box into a Mercury space capsule... the residents of a small Texas community whose spiritual connection tot he astronauts was bonded by the celebrative Christmas Eve candles they lit in honor of their neighbors, the crew of Apollo VIII... The musician saved from the ravages of drugs by one woman's historic voyage to the stars... The children who launched model rockets and imagined that one day, they too would journey to the moon. the hopes...the dreams...the glory of spaceflight...Fly Me To the Moon: Lost In Space With The Mercury Generation takes you back to when America took its first tentative steps into space. For every Mercury, Gemini, Apoll, and Shuttle voyage there is an accompanying story. For every mission there is a starry-eyed child transformed into Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, or Wally Schirra. For every earth-shaking liftoff, a 40-year-old Wall Street investor races off to the local hobby shop to experience the majesty of flight with a model rocket...." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Octavo - sized hardcover book with dust jacket; xix + 220 pages of text. Near Fine condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; no ownership markings. Original hardcover binding, with almost no wear. Very Good+ condition dust jacket, with only light wear. Protected by a clear plastic brodart sleeve. A solid and attractive copy of this book. Please look through my other aucti…
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