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Son of Apollo : the adventures of a boy whose father went to the moon

Title: Son of Apollo : the adventures of a boy whose father went to the moon / Christopher A. Roosa ; foreword by Jim Lovell.
Author: Roosa, Christopher A.
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

Lovell, Jim

Description

xii, 135 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"A son's story about growing up with a father who was an astronaut and flew on the "Apollo 14" mission"--

Series Statement

Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight

Uniform Title

Outward odyssey.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Biography.

Contents

Son of Apollo : prologue -- The launch of Apollo 14 -- The Roosa family -- Growing up in Claremore -- Life after Claremore : smoke jumper -- Flight training -- The Barrett family -- Meeting my mother -- Early family life -- Houston, Texas -- Getting on a flight -- Apollo casualties -- Pasttimes -- Apollo 11 -- Apollo 13 -- Apollo 14 -- Moon Trees -- The country western tapes -- Post flight -- Tales from the road -- Apollo launches -- Astronaut down time -- Growing up post Apollo 14 -- The Apollo groupie scene -- Apollo 17 -- Reflections of an Apollo command module pilot -- The last flight of Apollo -- Leaving NASA -- My father's passing -- Epilogue : Son of Apollo.

ISBN

9781496233349
1496233344
9781496234230 (canceled/invalid)
9781496234247 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022008550

OCLC

on1301902206
1301902206
SCSB-14321654

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library