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Topic: Books written by astronauts' children
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Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 12-28-2010 10:13 PM
  
This may be getting a little implausible, but is anyone aware if any of the "children of Mercury-Gemini-Apollo" have written, or plan to write, a book about growing up in the 1960s space age? I exclude from this category the wonderful, beautifully written For Spacious Skies by KC Stoever, which (to state the obvious) is a bio of her father, rather than an account of what it was like growing up as the child of an astronaut in the excitement of the early 1960s. As far as I am aware, the only other material is the "Other Voices" excerpts from Jerry Carr's book, where some of the children reflect on their childhood, especially when Carr was onboard Skylab. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 12-28-2010 10:32 PM
There are several childhood reminiscences by the children of the deceased astronauts from that era in my book "Fallen Astronauts." |
Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 12-29-2010 02:58 AM
I had forgotten that. I have a treasured copy of Fallen Astronauts (in fact I am the one who posted the Amazon book review lamenting the lack of info. of what happened to the families years after, incl. the Pat White story, to which you responded a few years back).What I had in mind was (is?) a full book by one of the astronauts' children. Or, for that matter, do people even believe there would be sufficient interest in their stories? I would love to hear from one of the Grissom boys, or one of the Lovell or Borman boys, what it was like to grow up surrounded by these iconic figures in the 1960s. Pity David Low never got around to this. What a fascinating story he could have told, had he lived. Not to merge threads, but I can't wait for the Apollo wives' book, having seen the BBC documentary (or parts of it) on YouTube. It is important these new angles are covered before it is too late. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-29-2010 08:48 AM
Henry, a book of similar sentiment is The Time It Takes To Fall. Although written about the Shuttle era, and specifically about how the Challenger accident affected their lives, the author does a good job describing growing up as the daughter of an engineer involved in the NASA human spaceflight effort. You may find it useful. |
jvertrees
Member Posts: 108
From: Crestwood, MO
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 01-10-2011 02:26 PM
I am very interested in hearing the family’s perspective. You hear blurbs now and then but I don’t know of a book authored by someone telling the space story from their perspective. Tom Mallon wrote a novel Aurora 7 which is his childhood perspective of Carpenter’s flight. Mallon is a Carpenter family friend. I believe he met Kris Stoever while she was in college. Each chapter opens with some of the Aurora 7 flight transcripts and then goes into the fictional narrative.I’d love to hear from one of the Skylab 4 children about dad being in space during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. One of the funniest blurbs I’ve heard was that while Ed Gibson was talking with his wife while on Skylab he heard his daughter in the background asking if she could go out and play because talking on the phone was boring. I hope I have that right. A little over a year ago I heard a lecture/interview given by Scott Carpenter, Kris Stoever and Tom Mullen in Kansas City, MO. Kris referred to herself as a NASA brat. I’ve never heard that before or since and that expression got me interested in what it was like to have been a child during the M.G.A. era while all eyes in the World were on your father.
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