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Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
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| Part No: | B000VYO5MO |
| Manufacturer: | NAL Trade |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Whether he was hot-dogging at Mach 2, test-flying every supersonic jet the Navy developed (and some they shouldn't have), orbiting the Earth at almost 20,000 mph, or redlining his Corvette, Pete Conrad loved pushing the envelope.
The guy every NASA pilot wanted to happyhour with after work-and would kill to fly with-Pete had a natural outspokenness that got him removed from the Mercury program. But the "Comeback Kid" came roaring back-flying two Gemini missions, walking on the Moon as the commander of
Apollo 12, commanding the first
Skylab, and logging more time in space than all the original astronauts combined.
This is a surprisingly candid insider's view of the greatest ride in history: America's glorious race to the stars, as seen through the eyes of a
real space cowboy.
| Pete Conrad deserves better | 2009-08-24 | 2 / 5 |
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This book is poorly written tripe that 14 year olds would love. Everyone older should save their money for much better books like "First Man", and "Carrying the Fire".
Lots of misinformation, BS, made up stories, along with a dearth of details makes this book more like pulp fiction.
It's too bad because Pete Conrad was an exceptional pilot, astronaut, and entrepreneur with a unique sense of humor. He deserves better, much better than this garbage.
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| A good and colorful book | 2009-06-26 | 5 / 5 |
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The life of Pete Conrad was so colorful that it is difficult to express it in a 301-page book.
It is a "rich summary", which allows the reader to have a good notion of the person who was Conrad, his restless spirit, his technical and scientific mind. Its reading makes us realize why he was always referred to by fellow astronauts as an exemplary man, whatever the aspect considered.
The focus is the person, not the profession.
The book doesn't have lots of details of Gemini 5, Gemini 11 or Apollo XII missions. But the final product is rewarding as it provides a good overview of U.S. manned space program history, and allows us to know a human being that was an example to those who lived around him. Those who didn't have that opportunity can learn a lot with the "Rocketman".
It is a good and colorful book.
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| Rocket Man a good read | 2007-10-29 | 4 / 5 |
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I have read a lot of material on the Mecury, Gemini, and Apollo missions and found this book to be a nice easy read. There were a couple of items that were mis-quoted, but other than that, I enjoyed reading it. I would suggest for readers of this type of material to be sure to read "Failure is not an option" by Gene Krantz, he was the flight director who was envolved with Mecury all the way to Apollo 17. With the knowledge of his book, it helps to understand a lot of what's going on. I did however, seem to notice a lack of writting about Pete Conrad's family. I have done business with Pete Conrad Jr. and he's a great guy. I was suprised to see so little mention of his family in the book. There was just a small part about them in the book. I guess perhaps written by is present wife would explalin it. But I enjoyed reading the book. Long may you rise above the earth Pete Conrad.
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| Enormously Dissapointing | 2007-06-30 | 2 / 5 |
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Pete Conrad had a fairly colorful style about him, part cowboy - part engineer - full time iconoclast. However, these traits do not come thru in this book. The writing does not convey the dynamics of the man, so ultimately it becomes little more than a 'just the facts' biography.
While I doubt any astronaut book came come close to capturing the human story of space Michael Collins' "Carrying The Fire", this book had a chance since it focused upon one of the truly unique characters in the space program. So am immensely dissapointed at the final product. |
| Factual errors | 2007-03-27 | 4 / 5 |
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| I enjoy reading about this time in American History and consider myself a student of the early space program. In that regard, in a brief perusal of the book, I have already noticed some factual errors that should have been caught by the editor or by Mr. Klausner. First, in the picture section, it shows a picture of Pete on the ladder about to board an F4 Phantom, yet the label says that he is posing in front of a T-38. Another error is related to the issue with "Max Peck". Max Peck was the Mgr of the Rice Hotel in 1962. After the 2nd group of astronauts was chosen, including, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, Ed White and Neil Armstrong they were asked to check in under the Mgr's name to avoid their names reaching the press prior to their formal introduction. However, this book states that this happened back in 1959 when the first 32 candidates for the Mercury program checked into a a non-disclosed hotel in Washington. Not only is that fact wrong, but they didn't check into a hotel in 1959 for that first meeting but they did meet at the Dolly Madison house in Washington. |
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