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Light This Candle The Life Of Alan Shepard Neal Thompson

SKU: BELL-55273018

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Publisher: Crown

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 2.86 MB

Pages: 780

Author: Neal Thompson

ISBN: 9780609610015, 0609610015

Language: English

Year: 2004

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Light This Candle The Life Of Alan Shepard Neal Thompson by Neal Thompson 9780609610015, 0609610015 instant download after payment.

The 15-minute Freedom 7 flight in 1961 made astronaut Alan Shepard America's first man in space and its first hero of the space age. Later he made history by playing golf on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. But journalist Thompson reveals another side of this all-American navy pilot with the right stuff. Although married for more than 50 years, Shepard had an eye for the prettiest girl in a room. Even longtime colleagues found him a hard man to get to know. The "Icy Commander" could be charming and helpful one minute, steely-eyed and "reaming them out" the next. Thompson traces Shepard's life from a New Hampshire childhood, when he was captivated with flying, to a lackluster career at Annapolis, where he frequently bent the rules, then his goal of becoming a jet pilot. Thompson shines a light on the very private Shepard's career between his Mercury and Apollo days, when he was earthbound by Menière's disease, which affected his equilibrium. In retirement, Shepard amazed everyone (except probably his devoted wife, Louise) by energetically embracing philanthropic causes before succumbing to leukemia at age 74.