Forever Young : : a life of adventure in air and space / / John W. Young with James R. Hansen ; foreword by Michael Collins.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Gainesville : : University Press of Florida,, [2012] 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 415 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Go" or "no-go"
- Part I: A flying career
- 1. From Cartersville to Georgia Tech
- 2. Gunnery officer to naval aviator
- 3. Fighter pilot to test pilot
- 4. Pax River
- Part II: Into orbit
- 5. The new nine and Project Gemini
- 6. Countdown
- 7. Three orbits
- 8. Dual rendezvous
- Part 3: Lunar journeys
- 9. From a fire to the moon
- 10. Call sign Charlie Brown
- 11. From tranquility to a lost moon
- 12. To the Descartes Highlands
- 13. In the briar patch
- 14. The end of moon landings
- Part III: The shuttle era
- 15. Enterprise
- 16. "The boldest test flight in history"
- 17. Advent of the "operational" shuttle
- 18. A steep spiral staircase
- 19. The Challenger disaster
- 20. A mountain of memos
- 21. "The next logical step
- 22. On a wing and a prayer
- Epilogue: When worlds collide.