Geoffrey BowmanA Long Voyage to the Moon
The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans
Geoffrey Bowman is a retired litigation lawyer living with his wife in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A sometime glider pilot, he is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and has contributed to the society’s Spaceflight magazine. He is a regular contributor on spaceflight to the quarterly magazine of the Irish Astronomical Association, of which he is a member. Jack Lousma is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, former naval aviator, NASA astronaut, and politician. He was a member of the second crew on the Skylab space station in 1973 and commanded the third space shuttle flight in 1982.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Kansas Kid
2. Jayhawk
3. The Pilot and Miss Pollom
4. Wings
5. Fighting Falcon
6. Top Guns of Oriskany
7. Teachers and Pupils
8. Deke and Al
9. Screaming Eagle
10. Rolling Thunder
11. Per Ardua ad Astra
12. El Lago
13. Modules
14. “Go Fever”
15. Two Lives
16. Footprints in the Dust
17. Backups
18. The Rocky Road to Taurus-Littrow
19. Many a Slip
20. Captain America Sets Sail
21. Into the Shadow
22. The Big Picture
23. Spaceman
24. Return to Ticonderoga
25. End of an Era
26. Apollo-Soyuz and Beyond
27. The Most Alien World
28. Ad Astra
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