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For 20 years Slayton, one of the original Mercury astronauts, ran the Astronaut Office at the Manned Spacecraft (later Johnson) Space Center in Houston, a position he assumed after being pulled off his Mercury flight for a minor heart ailment. In that capacity, he played a central role in selecting new astronauts and especially in assembling flight crews. In these posthumously published memoirs, he gives his account of those early years of U.S. manned spaceflight. Compared with the recent Moonshot (LJ 4/15/94), which he coauthored, this book allows the reader to get a sense of the man, of how a farm boy from Wisconsin ended up deciding who would be the first man on the moon and who finally, at the age of 51, got his own spaceflight on the Apollo Soyuz mission-the last Apollo flown. As another valuable addition to the recent first-hand accounts of NASA's early days, this book is highly recommended for public and academic libraries.
Thomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll., Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Thomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll., Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
The autobiography of one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, this is one of the best additions to the literature of the early American space effort. Slayton, who'd first flown as a World War II bomber pilot, came to the space program by a somewhat circuitous route. He was grounded in 1962 because of a heart murmur, and actually flew as an astronaut only once, in the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission. He was head of the astronaut office, however, and as such, one of the key persons involved in selecting crew, a process he describes with an insider's knowledge of detail and considerable frankness about the virtues and limitations of his colleagues. At the same time, Slayton never lost, nor will his readers miss, the sense of wonder with which space was contemplated in the days when it was a high and gallant dream. Roland Green
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I guess when it comes to space and aviation, I've seen and done a lot in fifty years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lunar module flight, manned space business, backup commander, docking adaptor, astronaut office, module pilot, prime crew, flight crew operations, backup crew, new astronauts, translunar injection, fighter test, flying chase, docking module, test pilot school, descent stage, ascent stage, escape tower, command module, orbit test, manned lunar landing, flight director, landing mission, manned spaceflight, first orbit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chris Kraft, Dave Scott, North American, Bob Gilruth, John Young, Other Voices, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford, Frank Borman, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, George Low, United States, Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, Charlie Duke, Gene Cernan, George Mueller, Mike Collins, Apollo Applications, Scott Carpenter, Gordo Cooper, Jim Webb, Manned Spacecraft Center New!
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lunar module flight, manned space business, backup commander, docking adaptor, astronaut office, module pilot, prime crew, flight crew operations, backup crew, new astronauts, translunar injection, fighter test, flying chase, docking module, test pilot school, descent stage, ascent stage, escape tower, command module, orbit test, manned lunar landing, flight director, landing mission, manned spaceflight, first orbit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chris Kraft, Dave Scott, North American, Bob Gilruth, John Young, Other Voices, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford, Frank Borman, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, George Low, United States, Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, Charlie Duke, Gene Cernan, George Mueller, Mike Collins, Apollo Applications, Scott Carpenter, Gordo Cooper, Jim Webb, Manned Spacecraft Center New!
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