Forever Young : A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
ISBN: 9780813042091 | 0813042097
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Pub. Date: 9/16/2012
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He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs-more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut." Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited for John Young to tell the story of his two Gemini flights, his two Apollo missions, the first-ever Space Shuttle flight, and the first Spacelab mission. Forever Youngdelivers all that and more: Young's personal journey from engineering graduate to fighter pilot, to test pilot, to astronaut, to h... MORE
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Prologue: "Go" or "No-Go" | p. 1 |
| A Flying Career | |
| From Cartersville to Georgia Tech | p. 9 |
| Gunnery Officer to Naval Aviator | p. 23 |
| Fighter Pilot to Test Pilot | p. 32 |
| Pax River | p. 42 |
| Into Orbit | |
| The New Nine and Project Gemini | p. 57 |
| Countdown | p. 71 |
| Three Orbits | p. 79 | ... MORE
| Dual Rendezvous | p. 86 |
| Lunar Journeys | |
| From a Fire to the Moon | p. 111 |
| Call Sign Charlie Brown | p. 125 |
| From Tranquility to a Lost Moon | p. 140 |
| To the Descartes Highlands | p. 152 |
| In the Briar Patch | p. 172 |
| The End of Moon Landings | p. 191 |
| The Shuttle Era | |
| Enterprise | p. 213 |
| "The Boldest Test Flight in History" | p. 223 |
| Advent of the "Operational" Shuttle | p. 240 |
| A Steep Spiral Staircase | p. 254 |
| The Challenger Disaster | p. 272 |
| A Mountain of Memos | p. 295 |
| "The Next Logical Step" | p. 320 |
| On a Wing and a Prayer | p. 332 |
| Epilogue: When Worlds Collide | p. 356 |
| Abbreviations | p. 375 |
| Notes | p. 379 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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