Gus Grissom
The Lost Astronaut (Indiana Biography Series)
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Gus Grissom
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Narrated by:
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Douglas R Pratt
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Ray E Boomhower
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Selected as one of NASA's original Seven Mercury Astronauts, Gus Grissom would go on to become the first man to fly in space twice and later give his life to the NASA space program.
In the most comprehensive biography on the subject yet, Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut offers a more personal side and fuller picture of Grissom’s life and character. Author Ray E. Boomhower explores Grissom’s life from his days as a child to his service as a combat pilot. He delves into the process by which NASA selected its original seven Mercury astronauts, the jostling for position to be the first American in space, and Grissom’s near-fatal Liberty Bell 7 flight that haunted his subsequent space career. Boomhower spent hours interviewing Grissom’s family and friends, including his wife Betty, who share the belief that this story is one worth telling to a new generation that about his illustrious career.
The book is published by Indiana Historical Society Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2004 Indiana Historical Society (P)2021 Redwood AudiobooksCritic reviews
"Thoroughly researched, this book does the badly needed job of rescuing his memory from the pages of Life and Tom Wolfe, his major previous limners." (Booklist)
Given how the space programme became so much of his life, it is only fitting that there is a large quantity of technical detail although, especially in the latter part of the book, it did feel too much, as if the reader had to pick glimpses of the man from the vast mountain of the space programme. The narration by Douglas R. Pratt further exacerbated this feeling. I would have preferred more of the man than the machine. But a picture does emerge of someone comfortable with himself, forceful, competitive with his peers and confident in his chosen world. A man who disliked publicity, somewhat taciturn, but with a good sense of humour
I would have liked very much to have met him
"One of the great heroes of the space age."
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