Christopher A. Roosa

Gebundenes Buch

Son of Apollo

The Adventures of a Boy Whose Father Went to the Moon

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233349
• ISBN-10: 1496233344
• Artikelnr.: 63431971