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Topic: Astronaut John Young's autobiography (memoirs)
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chappy
Member Posts: 231
From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 01-16-2010 05:22 PM
   
Does anyone know if John Young has written books yet or anyone who are writing books about astronaut John Young? I would be very grateful for anyone who will help me out...Editor's note: Threads merged |
Tyler
Member Posts: 27
From: Auburn, Alabama, United States
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 01-21-2010 08:33 PM
If you're interested in a book solely devoted to John Young, only one juvenile biography fits that description. That book, written by Paul Westman in 1981 and intended for 9 to 12 year old children, is listed on Amazon.com. It's only 54 pages long. Since no adult book length biography yet exists on Young, I am interested in hopefully writing a Ph.D. dissertation on his career in a few years. |
Tyler
Member Posts: 27
From: Auburn, Alabama, United States
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 06-01-2010 10:14 AM
The memoir project with Dr. Hansen is still very much in progress. A publisher remains to be found and thus there is still no release date, but this book will almost certainly be released in the near future.My dream remains to become a John Young scholar myself. I would still like to write a scholarly biography for my Auburn Ph.D. dissertation and then release it in book form. I'll just have to read the memoir first, and then figure out how much I could add to the study of his career. I hope someday both the memoir and a biography of my own will be on the market. I have already written 65 pages about the man, on my own time as an Auburn graduate student. I have it saved as a Microsoft Word document and I would be more than happy to share it as an e-mail attachment if anybody is interested. I would also love to interview subjects close to him for a biography. On that note, I have a question: does anybody know if his first wife Barbara is still around? |
hinkler
Member Posts: 573
From: Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-28-2011 03:27 AM
Any update on the John Young (Astronaut) autobiography? |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-29-2011 12:18 PM
I wouldn't hold your breath... But I hope I'm wrong. |
328KF
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Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 08-29-2011 10:09 PM
Since August 15, 2006, the beginning of this thread. Please can I let it out? |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-29-2011 10:34 PM
I'd love to see this book come to market, if for no other reason than that John Young's sheer breadth of spaceflight experience isn't even approached by any other astronaut or cosmonaut, living or dead.As an aside, I'd also be very interested to finally get his take on the controversies that surrounded his tenure as chief of astronauts, especially before and after Challenger. But that said, I have to agree with Blackarrow; it had better come soon if it's going to come at all, and I wish I had any real reasons for optimism.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-30-2011 04:29 PM
On Wednesday (Nov. 2), historian James Hansen is scheduled to deliver a talk titled, "Astronaut Tales: A Personal Account of the Neil Armstrong Biography and John Young Autobiography" at the NASA History Program Review Meeting at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. It does not appear that this meeting will be streamed online, but attendance is possible: If you would like to attend, please contact us at histinfo@hq.nasa.gov |
328KF
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posted 10-30-2011 05:58 PM
"You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again, thanks alot!"It's about time! |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-31-2011 06:03 PM
Don't cheer too soon: Mr Hansen may spend all but the last few seconds of his alloted time talking about his biography of Neil Armstrong, then add: "And if any of you are expecting a John Young autobiography... there ain't going to be one!"Please believe me when I say I hope I'm wrong. |
bruce
Member Posts: 916
From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-31-2011 08:11 PM
According to the last sentence in the third paragraph of this Auburn University website, “He (Hansen) is currently at work turning the memoirs of veteran astronaut and Moonwalker John Young into a published autobiography.” |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-01-2011 11:31 AM
I think there was/is at least one of Dr. Hansen's Auburn grad students on cS, so perhaps one of them could enlighten us, or else you could ask? |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-02-2011 12:34 PM
Early returns from Dr. Hansen's speech indicate that the book is currently at press in Florida and will be/is called "Forever Young." I'll post more if I hear more. |
328KF
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posted 11-02-2011 02:42 PM
Great title!  |
jiffyq58
Member Posts: 218
From: Durham, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 11-02-2011 03:01 PM
I'm sure there'll be a book signing tour, since John loves to get out there and rub shoulders with the public so much.Seriously, I do wish he'd do some book signings. But I also wish he'd come to Spacefest, and that ain't happening either. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 11-02-2011 04:07 PM
"Forever Young"? Maybe someone can entice Bob Dylan (who wrote a song by that name in the '70s) or Rod Stewart, who also sang it, to accompany Hansen on his book tour in place of Young.  Seriously, I look forward to reading it. On a side note, some of the lyrics to that song go, "May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung". |
DCCollector
Member Posts: 227
From: Washington, DC USA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 11-02-2011 04:45 PM
Perhaps a book-signing could be tied into Young's next Astronaut Central signing? |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-02-2011 04:58 PM
There's also the 1992 Mel Gibson film "Forever Young" in which a pilot wakes up 53 years after being frozen and forgotten in a cryogenic exercise. We haven't been held in limbo for quite that length of time, but it's good to see that John Young has finally "unfrozen" and is releasing his long-awaited memoirs. |
Grounded!
Member Posts: 367
From: Bennington, Vermont, USA
Registered: Feb 2011
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posted 11-02-2011 07:38 PM
Kudos to Dr. Hansen for hanging in there on this challenging project. I wonder if the enthusiastic response to Al Worden's new book in some way helped to move "Forever Young" toward completion?I can't wait to finally hold a copy in my hand. Preferably signed!!! |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-02-2011 09:18 PM
I'm pleasantly surprised: this looks promising. However, an autobiography is written by the book-subject himself. If it is written by an accomplished author on behalf of the subject, is it really an "autobiography"? Is it not just a biography based on extensive material, or at best a "ghost-written" autobiography? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-02-2011 09:24 PM
As mentioned earlier in this thread, Young wrote the core of the manuscript himself. Hansen was brought in to serve as editor and help flesh it out to be published. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 11-03-2011 09:28 AM
Maybe Easton Press will publish a signed leather-bound edition. |
DCCollector
Member Posts: 227
From: Washington, DC USA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 11-03-2011 10:19 AM
An Easton Press edition is a great idea. |
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