bAn exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls by a pioneering astronaut iPublishers Weeklyi.b p Gordon Gordo Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, pilot for Apollo X, head of flight crew operations for the United States' first orbiting space station, and the last American to venture into space alone. Stretching from the dawning days of NASA to the far reaches of the unknown, Cooper's distinguished career as a record-setting astronaut helped shape America's space program and blazed a trail for generations to come. p In this astonishing memoir--written with 1 iNew York Timesi bestseller Bruce Henderson--Cooper crosses paths with such aviation luminaries as Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun he shares his early days at Edwards Air Force Base and the endeavors that became the basis for iThe Right Stuffi he takes us inside NASA with candid accoun