Apollo Pilot
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-6283-6 (ISBN)
Known to many as a goofy, lighthearted prankster, Eisele worked his way from the U.S. Naval Academy to test pilot school and then into the select ranks of America’s prestigious astronaut corps. He was originally on the crew of Apollo 1 before being replaced due to injury. After that crew died in a horrific fire, Eisele was on the crew selected to return Americans to space. Despite the success of Apollo 7, Eisele never flew in space again, as divorce and a testy crew commander led to the three astronauts being labeled as troublemakers.
Unbeknownst to everyone, after his retirement as a technical assistant for manned spaceflight at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1972, Eisele wrote in detail about his years in the air force and his time in the Apollo program. Long after his death, Francis French discovered Eisele’s unpublished memoir, and Susie Eisele Black (Donn’s widow) allowed French access to her late husband’s NASA files and personal effects. Readers can now experience an Apollo story they assumed would never be written as well as the story behind its discovery.
Donn Eisele (1930–87) flew the Apollo 7 spacecraft in 1968 and served as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 10 moon mission. After retiring from the air force and the space program, he became director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Thailand. Francis French is the director of education at the San Diego Air and Space Museum and the coauthor of Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965 (Nebraska, 2007). Susie Eisele Black (1939–2014) was the widow of astronaut Donn Eisele.
List of Illustrations Foreword by Francis French 1. Launch Morning 2. Beginnings 3. Astronaut Selection 4. Going Back to Houston 5. After the Fire 6. Liftoff 7. Rendezvous 8. The Grandeur of Earth 9. Return to Earth 10. Splashdown 11. Home 12. After the Flight Afterword by Susie Eisele Black Historical Overview by Amy Shira Teitel Acknowledgments Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight |
Nachwort | Susan Eisele Black |
Zusatzinfo | 37 photographs |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8032-6283-3 / 0803262833 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-6283-6 / 9780803262836 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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