Christopher A. Roosa is a retired colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and is a combat veteran. He served in various positions in Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. He has worked as a senior congressional staffer on the House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, as a special assistant on the U.S. secretary of defense’s first Base Realignment and Closure Commission, as a political advance person for the U.S. Office of the Vice President, and as director of policy for a NASDAQ-100 corporation. For the last fifteen years he has also worked as an independent contractor for the U.S. government. Jim Lovell is a retired American astronaut, naval aviator, and mechanical engineer. He was the command module pilot of Apollo 8 and the commander of Apollo 13.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1. The Launch of Apollo 14
2. The Roosa Family
3. Growing Up in Claremore
4. Life after Claremore
5. Flight Training
6. The Barrett Family
7. Meeting My Mother
8. Early Family Life
9. Houston, Texas
10. Getting on a Flight
11. Apollo Casualties
12. Pastimes
13. Apollo 11
14. Apollo 13
15. Apollo 14
16. Moon Trees
17. The Country Western Tapes
18. Postflight
19. Tales from the Road
20. Apollo Launches
21. Astronaut Downtime
22. Growing Up after Apollo 14
23. The Apollo Groupie Scene
24. Apollo 17
25. Reflections of an Apollo Command Module Pilot
26. The Last Flight of Apollo
27. Leaving NASA
28. My Father’s Passing
Epilogue
