{"product_id":"2940014031523","title":"Shipwreck In The Sky","description":"The flight into space that made\u003cbr\u003e Pilot-Capt. Dan Barstow famous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe flight was listed at GHQ as _Project Songbird_. It was sponsored by\u003cbr\u003ethe Space Medicine Labs of the U.S. Air Force. And its pilot was Captain\u003cbr\u003eDan Barstow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hand-picked man, Dan Barstow, chosen for the AF's most important\u003cbr\u003eproject of the year because he and his VX-3 had already broken all\u003cbr\u003eprevious records set by hordes of V-2s, Navy Aerobees and anything else\u003cbr\u003ethat flew the skyways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Barstow, first man to cross the sea of air and sight open, unlimited\u003cbr\u003espace. Pioneer flight to infinity. He grinned and hummed to himself as\u003cbr\u003ehe settled down for the long jaunt. Too busy to be either thrilled or\u003cbr\u003escared he considered the thirty-seven instruments he'd have to read, the\u003cbr\u003etwice that many records to keep, and the miles of camera film to run. He\u003cbr\u003ehad been hand-picked and thoroughly conditioned to take it all without\u003cbr\u003emore than a ten percent increase in his pulse rate. So he worked as\u003cbr\u003ematter-of-factly as if he were down in the Gs Centrifuge of the Space\u003cbr\u003eMedicine Labs where he had been schooled for this trip for months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe kept up a running fire of oral reports through his helmet radio, down\u003cbr\u003eto Rough Rock and his CO. \"All Roger, sir ... temperature falling fast\u003cbr\u003ebut this rubberoid space suit keeps me cozy, no chills ... Doc Blaine\u003cbr\u003ewill be happy to hear that! Weightless sensations pretty queer and I\u003cbr\u003efeel upside-down as much as rightside-up, but no bad effects.... Taking\u003cbr\u003eshots of the sun's corona now with color film ... huh? Oh, yes, sir,\u003cbr\u003eit's beautiful all right, now that you mention it. But, hell, sir, who's\u003cbr\u003egot the time for aesthetics now?... Oops, _that_ was a close one! Tenth\u003cbr\u003emeteor whizzing past. Makes me think of flak back on those Berlin\u003cbr\u003ebombing runs.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079868236016,"sku":"2940014031523","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014031523_p0.jpg?v=1763599375","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014031523","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}