[Signed] For Spacious Skies Scott Carpenter / Kristin Stoever [Near Fine] [Hardcover]

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VERY GOOD+ — Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Very small scuffs to foredge, back board (touched up). Please inspect photos closely for condition details. More pics available on request. ****************************** This text is featured in the Easton Press series Signed Collector's Edition. Published in 2003, bound in handsome Navy Blue leather, and SIGNED by the authors on the presentation page, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectibles library. Included is a Certificate of Authenticity. ****************************** Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website: ******************** *Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather. ***** 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the ""hubbed"" spine. ***** Heavy duty binding boards. . ***** Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper. . ***** Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books. ***** .moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker. ***** Gilded page ends. *************************************** ""In 1962, an anxious nation watched on live TV as astronaut Scott Carpenter's ""Aurora 7"" capsule malfunctioned during reentry. Only his courage and skill saved the day. But instead of praise for having the ""Right Stuff,"" Carpenter drew criticism for ""botching"" an otherwise flawless mission and overshooting his landing zone. Although a mechanical glitch was responsible, Carpenter-the ""free spirit"" of the Mercury Seven-never flew into space again. But his days as a daring, pioneering explorer were far from over. ****** Carpenter overcame tremendous adversity to go from small-town boy to Navy test pilot, Mercury astronaut, and undersea explorer. Now, writing with his daughter [Kristin Stoever], he breaks his 40-year silence to set the record straight about the Aurora 7 mission, the often ruthless early years at NASA-and the rugged upbringing that produced the man John Glenn has called 'one of America's modern heroes.' "" ////////////////////////////////////////////// Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn. . . . ////// . . . [In 1962] Carpenter was selected as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts. He was backup to Glenn during the latter's Mercury Atlas 6 orbital mission. Carpenter flew the next mission, Mercury-Atlas 7, in the spacecraft he named Aurora 7. Due to a series of malfunctions, the spacecraft landed 250 miles (400 km) downrange from its intended splashdown point, but both pilot and spacecraft were retrieved. ////// Carpenter obtained permission from NASA to take a leave of absence to join the U.S. Navy SEALAB project as an aquanaut. During training he suffered injuries that...