Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond - Softcover

Conrad, Nancy; Klausner, Howard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 045121837X ISBN 13: 9780451218377

Publisher: NAL Trade, 2006

Synopsis

A portrait of the life and career of NASA bad boy Pete Conrad describes his poverty-stricken youth, educational success, efforts to overcome dyslexia, work as an elite test pilot, remarkable accomplishments with the space program, and untimely death in a motorcycle accident. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Conrad was Pete Conrad's wife for the last ten years of his life. She co-founded the Community Emergency Healthcare Initiative to prevent injuries and deaths occurring from medical errors in emergency rooms.

Howard A. Klausner wrote the screenplay for Space Cowboys, starring Clint Eastwood.

From Publishers Weekly:

Screenwriter Klausner (Space Cowboys), writing with astronaut Conrad's second wife, Nancy, brings a snappy, movie-dialogue feel to this biography of Charles "Pete" Conrad (1930–1999). Perhaps not as well remembered as some of his colleagues because his missions fell between the more famous ones, Conrad flew on Gemini 5, which set a record for the most days in space up to that point, on Gemini11, notable for rendezvousing and docking with a rocket on the first orbit, and commanded Apollo 12 on a glitch-free ride to the moon. A decade later, Conrad was called on to save the ill-fated Skylab, which had suffered crippling injuries on its journey into space. He showed that the best way to fix something was usually the simplest: a few good hard whacks with a hammer. Early in his career, Conrad was passed over for the Mercury program because he didn't have "the right stuff"—he got fed up with the intrusive medical exams and tossed his enema bag down on the commanding general's desk. But the public and Conrad's co-workers loved him for his hard-living, hard-working persona. Fans of the American space program will enjoy this fast read, which captures the bigger-than-life character of this gap-toothed, all-American space cowboy. Agent, Bill Gladstone.(May 3)
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About this edition

• Publisher: NAL Trade
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 045121837X
• ISBN 13: 9780451218377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320