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Text © 2004 by Ruth Ashby
Illustrations © 2004 by Robert Hunt
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Print composition by Melanie McMahon Ives
Photographs and official NASA patches and emblems pages iii, 109–115 courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Johnson Space Center. Illustrations pages i–viii and pages 112–113, 115 by Robert Hunt.
ISBN: 9781561457458
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Ashby, Ruth.
Rocket man : the Mercury adventure of John Glenn / written by Ruth Ashby ; illustrated by Robert Hunt.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-56145-323-8 / 1-56145-323-4
1. Project Mercury (U.S.)—History—Juvenile literature. 2. Glenn, John, 1921—Juvenile literature. I. Hunt, Robert, 1952– ill. II. Title.
TL789.8.U6M4137 2004
629.45’0092—dc22
2004005549