Manned Space Flight: Personal Reflections on the Space Program

Manned Space Flight relates the personal remembrances of the author who spent nineteen years withNASA in three major manned space programs: the two-man Gemini, the Apollo moon landing and the Space Shuttle. His management involvement in these programs allowed him to be presentfor a number of significant space milestones: the first rendezvous of two manned spacecrafts, the first time anastronaut moved from his spacecraft into free space; the first flight of Apolloaround the moon; the landing of astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon;and the development and successfulflights of the Space Shuttle. Many of the early pioneers who were associates ofthe author are identified.