We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race |
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Tom P. Stafford, Michael Cassutt
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Pages: 208 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1588340708
Pub: Smithsonian Books
Pub date: 2002-12
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 111997
Reader Reviews:
I liked this book. (2/2 people found this helpful)
Goodness knows how Mike Cassutt managed to make such a great book out of a tough subject. Stafford is notoriously tight-lipped about his personal life, considered a little vain and occasionally arrogant. But here is a really good read about some amazing moments in history. Bravo Cassutt!!!!
It Sure Captured My Imagination (5/5 people found this helpful)
Ask any American to name ten pioneering U.S. astronauts and it's quite unlikely they would include the name of Tom Stafford. Yet here is a man who was chosen in NASA's second group of astronauts, who flew two incredible Gemini missions, operated a lunar module to within a few miles of the lunar surface, and became a crew member on the historic ASTP mission, in which Soviet and American spacefarers shook hands in space. And that is just his spaceflight career. There are many layers to General Tom Stafford, and this book explores them all. I will also add that this was a greatly-anticipated book in the space community; co-author Michael Cassutt had earlier hunkered down with Deke Slayton and written a truly superb book about the man, his life and career. Undoubtedly a winner, and an intriguing book about a man whose influence is still being felt at NASA and the upper echelon of spaceflight administration; so highly thought of that he was part of the Columbia accident investigation and review board after the loss of that shuttle in 2003.
This is a seriously good book about a true spaceflight pioneer, and a man who, while he might slip under the radar of most Americans, is an absolute legend of flight beyond our planet. Both authors are to be congratulated on creating this stirring and highly-recommended book.
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