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Topic: James McDivitt autobiography?
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Mike
Member Posts: 178
From: San Diego, CA, USA
Registered: May 2001
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posted 06-02-2001 02:19 PM
   
Anyone know if Jim McDivitt has a book? |
Ed beck
Member Posts: 227
From: Florida
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-02-2001 09:06 PM
As far as I know Jim McDivitt has not written a book. I do not know of anything in the pipeline either, but anything is possible. He is a neat guy, and I am sure he has a story to tell. If anyone knows if he is planning to write a book, I would like to know about it. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2668
From: Berlin, Germany
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 06-02-2001 11:47 PM
McDivitt never wrote a book. |
minipci
Member Posts: 416
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 10-30-2009 06:20 PM
Anybody know if Jim McDivitt has any plans of ever writing a book? I was wondering whether things might have changed since the last posts on this thread. |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 10-30-2009 07:04 PM
Jim doesn't think he can contribute anything that hasn't already been said. He's wrong, of course. He's a great storyteller. We introduced him to Slayton and Stafford biographer Michael Cassutt at Spacefest. Maybe something will come of it. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2136
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 10-30-2009 08:53 PM
I doubt that this will happen, although I'm happy to be proved wrong. Jim told me during a phone interview for "Into That Silent Sea" that he had absolutely no interest at all in writing his memoirs or having them penned for him. In fact he told me quite seriously that he had not read any biographical material written by or about his fellow astronauts. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 11-03-2009 09:04 PM
I think that it would be quite the interesting book! (Like you all don't also think so!) I think that his careers after he left NASA would also be of great interest, since he has done so many different things.Oh well, we can't always get everything we want in this world, can we?!?! |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1371
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 11-08-2009 04:17 PM
I asked him this very question in 2003 at the Reno Apollo Reunion, specifically regarding an account of Apollo 9. His answer (delivered with a very dry sense of humour) was that the 'vanilla' version is already out there and that he certainly wasn't going to tell me what it was really like.Rusty Schweickart seemed quite bemused when I put the same question to him, thinking it unlikely that anyone would really be interested. A shame, as other than Scott's one page coverage of Apollo 9 in his book there's no autobiographical first person account of the mission. Seems it will remain the only flown Apollo mission 'missing' from the record. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2136
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-17-2009 12:13 AM
On the contrary, you'll find the Apollo 9 story (okay, a chapter - not a full book) told in "In the Shadow of the Moon." Rusty Schweickart gave a lengthy interview on the flight and its aftermath for this chapter, which tells the Apollo 9 story from his point of view. Dave Scott was also interviewed, and to a lesser extent, Jim McDivitt by phone. Dave Scott told Francis and I that it is one of the best books he has read on the Apollo program; so much so that he willingly wrote a nice back-cover review of it for the upcoming paperback version of the book. |
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