Donn Eisele: Apollo Pilot | Buch

Cover: 9780803262836 | Apollo Pilot | The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele | Donn Eisele

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Beschreibung

In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA's manned-spaceflight program.

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 Long after his death, Francis French discovered Eisele's unpublished memoir, and Susie Eisele Black (Donn's widow) allowed French access to her late husband's NASA files and personal effects.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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Raumfahrttechnik
Genre:	Importe , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780803262836
ISBN-10:	0803262833
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Eisele, Donn
Redaktion:	French, Francis
Hersteller:	Nebraska
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	236 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Donn Eisele
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2017
Gewicht:	0,427 kg

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