posted 04-21-2005 05:49 PM               

The name of the book is �Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad�s Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond�. It is an amazing book and we are delighted that Nancy Conrad has consented to SIGN this book without any additional charge.

For Pete Conrad, it was all about the ride. Nicknamed the Comeback Kid, he survived his family's financial hardships, overcame dyslexia, landed a Navy scholarship to Princeton, and became one of the country's elite test pilots. Never the squeaky clean NASA poster boy, he famously bounced himself out of the Mercury Program but came roaring back to fly two Gemini missions, walk on the moon as Commander of Apollo 12, command the first Skylab, and work to develop the first re-usable commercial rocket-logging more time in space than all the original astronauts combined. Based on interviews conducted with Conrad by his wife before his untimely death, Rocketman is the amazing-but-true, surprisingly candid insider's view of the greatest ride in history, America's glorious race to the stars, as seen through the eyes of the real Space Cowboy: Pete Conrad, the Rocketman.
Nancy Conrad was married to Pete Conrad for the last ten years of his life. A writer, artists' representative, and interior designer, she co-founded Universal Space Networks (with her late husband), and the Community Emergency Healthcare Initiative, to prevent injuries and deaths occurring from medical error in emergency rooms.

New. SIGNED by the wife of the late Gemini and Apollo astronaut, Pete Conrad. Hardbound with dust jacket covered of course with our standard archival sleeve. 304 pages. Pre-order Now for only $24.95 plus shipping. At http://boggsspace.com

Donald & Tamara Boggs
Boggs SpaceBooks
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Anderson, IN 46012 U.S.A.