Schirra’s Space.

SCHIRRA, Captain Walter M. Jr [Wally]; Richard N. Billings; Jack Lousma; Mario Runco; Bill Shepherd; Bill Readdy; Alan Shepard.

$750.00

Item Number: 147678

Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988.

First edition of this revealing autobiography of Captain Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wally Schirra and Jack Lousma on the front free endpaper and also signed by astronauts Mario Runco, Bill Shepherd, Bill Readdy, and Alan Shepard. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannus Design Associates and front jacket painting by Robert Peak.

The fifth American in space during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission and the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, Walter 'Wally' Schirra’s career in NASA represents each step in answering Kennedy’s 1961 call to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.