LEADER 04773nam 22007335 450 001 9910438116203321 005 20220203233830.0 010 $a9781461438557 010 $a1461438551 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4614-3855-7 035 $a(CKB)3460000000120291 035 $a(EBL)1205296 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000879331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10851670 035 $a(PQKB)10134240 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4614-3855-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1205296 035 $a(PPN)169135594 035 $a(EXLCZ)993460000000120291 100 $a20130321d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoon Bound $eChoosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts /$fby Colin Burgess 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 225 1 $aSpace Exploration 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781461438540 311 08$a1461438543 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I Announcements and volunteers -- Screening the applicants -- The finalists -- The "Next Nine" -- Settling in -- Part II The boy from Barren Run -- Answering the call -- A few exceptionally good men -- The Fourteen -- Patience and Persistence -- "Before this decade is out" -- For some, the glory -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aOften lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following two decades. ?Moon Bound? complements the author?s recently published work, ?Selecting the Mercury Seven? (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch human spaceflight and broaden the American space program. Although the initial 1959 group became known as the legendary pioneering Mercury astronauts, the astronauts of Groups 2 and 3 gave us many household names. Sixteen astronauts from both groups traveled to the Moon in Project Apollo, with several actually walking on the Moon, one of them being Neil Armstrong. This book draws on interviews to tell the astronauts' personal stories and recreate the drama of that time. It describes the process by which they were selected as astronauts and explains how the criteria had changed since the first group. ?Moon Bound? is divided into two parts, recounting the biographies relating to the nine astronauts from NASA?s Group 2 in the first part, and the fourteen finalists in Group 3 in the second part. The stories of both selection groups are narrated through the experiences of four finalists with interesting backgrounds. One of these men is Al Rupp of the USAF who, as a West Point cadet, cheekily helped to steal the Navy mascot goat prior to the annual Army versus Navy game in 1953, thus achieving legendary status in the game?s history. Rupp was killed in a plane crash just two years after being named as a finalist for Group 3. The service career of naval aviator John Yamnicky was also very much the equal of other finalists, but he was killed on September 11, 2001, as he was a passenger on hijacked Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon. At the end of the work there are several chapters on how these candidates were prepped for their missions. 410 0$aSpace Exploration 606 $aAerospace engineering 606 $aAstronautics 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aHistory 606 $aPopular works 606 $aAerospace Technology and Astronautics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aPopular Science, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q00007 615 0$aAerospace engineering. 615 0$aAstronautics. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aPopular works. 615 14$aAerospace Technology and Astronautics. 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aPopular Science, general. 676 $a629.450092 676 $a629.454 700 $aBurgess$b Colin$f1947-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0761860 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438116203321 996 $aMoon Bound$92031365 997 $aUNINA