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Son of Apollo: The Adventures of a Boy Whose Father Went to the Moon

English

By (author): Christopher A. Roosa

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 focusand the pressureof 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 fathers 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 astronauts son. Roosas story shows the Apollo era was the result not only of thousands of scientists and engineers working steadfastly toward achieving an assassinated presidents national goal but also the families who supported them and lived the missions in their own way.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781496233349

About Christopher A. Roosa

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 defenses 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.

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