Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era 1961-1965 is a 2007 non-fiction book by space historians Francis French

Francis French

Francis French is a book and magazine author from Manchester, England, specializing in space flight history. He is a former director of events for Sally Ride Science, and a director at the San Diego Air & Space Museum....

 and Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess (author)

Colin Burgess is an Australian author and historian, specializing in space flight and military history. He is a former customer service manager for Qantas Airways, and a regular contributor to the collectSPACE online community. He lives in New South Wales...

. Drawing on a number of original personal interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts and those who worked closely with them, the book chronicles the American and Russian programs from 1961 onwards, from the first human spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....

 through the Mercury

Project Mercury

In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,...

, Vostok and Voskhod flights, up to the first space walk by Alexei Leonov.

The book is the first volume in the Outward Odyssey spaceflight history series by the University of Nebraska Press

University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is a publisher of scholarly and popular-press books. It is the second-largest state university press in the United States and, including private institutions, ranks among the 10 largest university presses in the United States...

. The space program history continues chronologically in the follow-on book In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon (book)

In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility is a 2007 non-fiction book by space historians Francis French and Colin Burgess...

: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969.

The book was named as a finalist for the 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award

Eugene M. Emme Award

The Eugene M. Emme Award is an award given annually to a person or persons selected by a panel of reviewers from the American Astronautical Society History Committee to recognize "the truly outstanding book published each year serving public understanding about the positive impact of astronautics...

 given by the American Astronautical Society

American Astronautical Society

Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and exploration. AAS supports NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and is a member of the Coalition for Space Exploration and the...

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External links

• Into That Silent Sea Official Publisher Site
• Into That Silent Sea book review by Tim Gebhart
• Book review by San Diego Union Tribune 
• http://www.thespacereview.com/article/892/1Book review by Jeff Foust
  Jeff Foust
  Dr Jeff Foust is an aerospace analyst, journalist and publisher. He is the editor and publisher of The Space Review and has written for Astronomy Now and The New Atlantis....
  
   of The Space Review
  The Space Review
  The Space Review is a free online publication, published weekly with in-depth articles, essays, commentary and reviews on space exploration and development. It was founded in February 2003 by Jeff Foust, the current editor, publisher and regular writer....
  
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• 2007 AAS Emme Award finalist announcements