Son of Apollo

The Adventures of a Boy Whose Father Went to the Moon

Christopher A. Roosa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3334-9 (ISBN)

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Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon. The first book written by an offspring of an Apollo astronaut to focus on growing up in that era, Son of Apollo tells the inside story of the life of his father, a man who had a remarkable career despite always believing his air force career was “off-track,” from his initial application to the service to his removal from the prime crew of Apollo 13 and his subsequent assignment to Apollo 14. During the Apollo 13 mission and recovery, Stuart played an integral role in developing the procedures to return the crew to Earth safely. The focus-and the pressure-of the entire Apollo program then shifted to the Apollo 14 mission. If the Apollo program was to continue, Stuart and the Apollo 14 crew would need to get safely to the moon, land, and return.

In writing about his father’s career, Christopher Roosa also shows us a familial side of the Apollo experience, from the daily struggles of growing up in the shadow of a father who was necessarily away in training most of the year to the expectations involved in being an astronaut’s son. Roosa’s story shows the Apollo era was the result not only of thousands of scientists and engineers working steadfastly toward achieving an assassinated president’s national goal but also the families who supported them and lived the missions in their own way.

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Christopher A. Roosa is a retired colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and is a combat veteran. He served in various positions in Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. He has worked as a senior congressional staffer on the House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, as a special assistant on the U.S. secretary of defense’s first Base Realignment and Closure Commission, as a political advance person for the U.S. Office of the Vice President, and as director of policy for a NASDAQ-100 corporation. For the last fifteen years he has also worked as an independent contractor for the U.S. government. Jim Lovell is a retired American astronaut, naval aviator, and mechanical engineer. He was the command module pilot of Apollo 8 and the commander of Apollo 13.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1. The Launch of Apollo 14
2. The Roosa Family
3. Growing Up in Claremore
4. Life after Claremore
5. Flight Training
6. The Barrett Family
7. Meeting My Mother
8. Early Family Life
9. Houston, Texas
10. Getting on a Flight
11. Apollo Casualties
12. Pastimes
13. Apollo 11
14. Apollo 13
15. Apollo 14
16. Moon Trees
17. The Country Western Tapes
18. Postflight
19. Tales from the Road
20. Apollo Launches
21. Astronaut Downtime
22. Growing Up after Apollo 14
23. The Apollo Groupie Scene
24. Apollo 17
25. Reflections of an Apollo Command Module Pilot
26. The Last Flight of Apollo
27. Leaving NASA
28. My Father’s Passing
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight
Vorwort	James Lovell
Zusatzinfo	29 photographs
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	1-4962-3334-4 / 1496233344
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3334-9 / 9781496233349
Zustand	Neuware