by Jay Barbree
station keeping with Mir
docking in space, first
Douglas, Bill
drag races
Duke, Charlie
Eagle (Apollo 11 lunar module)
Eagle (Russian ship)
early days
Eisenhower, Dwight David message in space
responding to Sputnik pressure
response to Vanguard failure
Sputnik beating U.S. to space and
Endeavour (Apollo 15)
Endeavour (Shuttle)
Engle, Joe
Enos, the chimpanzee
equal rights battle
equigravisphere
Evans, Ron
Explorer 1
Faith Seven
Falcon
Farley, Jim
firefly-like lights
firsts American black astronaut
American in orbit. See Friendship Seven
American satellite. See Juno 1
American woman astronaut
American/Soviet mission. See Apollo-
Soyuz docking in space
landing on moon
man in space
moonwalk
orbit around moon
rendezvous in space
Russian satellite. See Sputnik
Shuttle mission
spacewalk
women in space
See also McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
Fitzgerald, Bill
Foale, Mike
Ford, Gerald
Frank, David
Freedom Seven
buffeting of
countdown/liftoff
crowd reaction
F–106 jets accompanying
forces on Shepard
Louise Shepard and
manual control
media coverage
recovery
return to Earth/splashdown
Freedom Seven, (cont.) righting landed capsule
separation from Redstone rocket
Shepard into capsule
views of Earth
weightlessness and
Friendship Seven
chimpanzee flight prior to
crowds watching
delays
firefly-like lights around
forces on Glenn
Glenn describing view from
heat shield problems
launch of
media coverage
near disaster
in orbit
prelaunch activities
reentry difficulties
splashdown
verifying Glenn on board
future vision
Gagarin, Yuri cosmonaut program
early years/flight training
first in space (Swallow)
landing from space
Gannett, Dixon
Garman, Jack
Garn, Jake
Gemini 3
Gemini 4
Gemini 5
Gemini 6
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 9
Gemini 10
Gemini 11
Gemini 12
Gemini Nine astronauts
“honoring” Mercury Seven
Mercury Seven prank
Gemini program. See Project Gemini; specific Gemini missions
Gibbs, Asa
Gibson, Robert “Hoot,”
Gilruth, Robert
Glenn, John
anticipated as first in space
Christmas Eve with author
first American in orbit. See Friendship Seven
helping Cooper return from space
as hero
as Mercury backup
military background
millennium party on launch pad of
photographs
returning to space
on Russia beating U.S.
supporting Deke Slayton
Gold, Herb
golfing on moon
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordon, Dick
Gralnick, Jeff
Griffin, Michael
Griffin, Phil
Grine, Ken
Grissom, Betty
Grissom, Virgil “Gus,”
Apollo 1 disaster
burial at Arlington
concerns with Apollo program
death of
Frank Sinatra and
gagging Alan Shepard
as Gemini 4 CapCom
hatch problems and
JFK and
“lemon” simulator
Liberty Bell Seven sinking and
Mercury flight
military background
Molly Brown flight
photographs
requiring parachute
seasickness
speeding away from cops
supporting Deke Slayton
Wally Schirra warning about hatch
Gumdrop
Hager, Robert
Haise, Fred
Hall, Debi
Ham, Linda
Ham, the chimpanzee
Harris, Gordon
Harris, Hugh
Hauck, Frederick H. “Rick,”
Hawking, Stephen
Hello, Buzz
Hilmers, Dave
Hinkley, Duane
Hobaugh, Charles
Hoffman, Jeffrey
Houston, Cecil
Hubble telescope COSTAR fix for
Discovery deploying
flaws
future of
repair mission
testing repairs
vision reach
Huntley, Chet
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Husband, Rick
International Space Station
Intrepid
Irwin, Jim
Jacobs, Jerry
Jansing, Chris
Johnson, Lyndon B. attitude toward space program
elected president
garnering NASA center in Texas
inheriting presidency
politicizing Apollo project
signing Civil Rights Act
Journalist in Space Project, xi–xii
Juno 1
Jupiter-C
Kamanin, Lev
Kennedy, John F.
assassination
assessing NASA
authorizing moon landing
fulfilling moon-landing goal of
with John Glenn
understanding Soviet inferiority
King, Jack
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kitchell, Jim
Kitty Hawk
Kolcum, Harry
Korolev, Sergei
Korzun, Valeri
Kraft, Chris
Kranz, Gene
Kubasov, Valeri
Laika
Landwirth, Henri
Lane, John
“lemon” simulator
Leonov, Aleksei A.
Liberty Bell Seven
Liebergot, Sy
Lindsey, Steve
Linenger, Jerry
Lounge, John “Mike,”
Lousma, Jack
Lovell, James Apollo 8 mission
Apollo 13 mission. See Apollo 13
describing views of moon/Earth
Gemini 7 mission
Gemini 12 mission
NASA hiring
photograph
Lovell, Marilyn
Lucid, Shannon
lunar module (LM) Apollo 9 tests
Apollo 10 tests
as Apollo 13 lifeboat
composition
limited operation abilities
test requirements
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mattingly, Ken
Max Q
McAllister, Mike
McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
McCafferty, Riley
McCall, Gene
McCool, Willie
McCormick, Robert
McDivitt, Jam
es
McElroy, Neil. H.
Mercury project. See Freedom Seven; Mercury Seven; Project Mercury Mercury Seven chimpanzees and
drag races
first-to-go decision
Gemini Nine honoring
leaving base for motel
practical jokes
qualifications and screening
response to Swallow flight
selection
supporting Deke Slayton
traffic-cop incident
See also specific astronaut names
Merritt Island
Mir Americans training on
continuous American presence on
docking problem
emergency escape vehicles lost
fire aboard
origin of
Mitchell, Ed
Molko, David
Molly Brown
moon descriptions of, from first orbit
first landing
first orbit around
golfing on
gravitational pull of
origin deciphered
other side of, discoveries
rocks and samples
Shepard weeping on
See also Apollo mission names
moonwalk (first)
Armstrong’s first words during
camera shots from
collecting samples
description of Earth during
description of surroundings
experiences during
first step
mementos for dead astronauts/cosmonauts
placing seismometer during
planting flag during
moonwalk (second mission)
moonwalk (third mission)
Morgado, Javier
Morgan, Barbara
Morris, Frieda
Morrow, Lola
Moser, Robert
Mueller, Merrill
Musgrave, Story
N–1 rocket
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) birth of
finest hour
going to Texas
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mission Control
response to Swallow flight
slowdown orders
Navias, Rob
NB.C. astronaut training coverage
Atlas 10B report
author starting at
covering every moon flight
first-ever breaking news coverage
Sputnik reports
Neal, Roy
Neilon, John
Nelson, Bill
Nelson, George “Pinky,”
Nesbitt, Steve
Nixon, Richard Apollo 13 celebratory visit
calling Marilyn Lovell
promising return to moon
Watergate
Northshield, Shad
O’Brien, Soledad
Odyssey
See also
Apollo 13 O’Malley, Thomas J.
orbit around moon, first
circumlunar
Eisenhower message in
See also Atlas 10B (Project Score)
first American in. See Friendship Seven
first American satellite in
first man in
first satellite in. See Sputnik
Project Mercury stretching limits
White House ultimatum for
Orion
Page, George
Pentagon space program
Polaris launch
Porter, Steve
Powell, Bruce
Powers, John “Shorty,”
practical jokes
Proctor, Ed
Project Apollo disaster spawning new management
end of
Grissom problems with
lunar module (LM) tests
organization incompetence
politization of
reason for
Saturn 1B test flight
See also specific Apollo missions
Project Gemini
adjusting first crew
astronauts
See also Gemini
Nine changing orbit levels
Project Gemini
(cont.) compared to Project Mercury
Deke Slayton management roles
praise for
purpose of
testing maneuvers for moon project
See also specific Gemini missions
Project Mercury-Atlas failure
See also Atlas 10B
(Project Score)
Atlas successes
Aurora Seven
chimpanzees in space
Faith Seven
Gemini program vs.
Liberty Bell Seven
orbit ultimatum
secrecy about first in space
stretching orbit limits
See also Freedom Seven; Mercury Seven
Project Score (Atlas 10B)
R–7 rocket. See Sputnik
Ramon, Ilan
Rathmann, Jim
Reagan, Ronald
Reasoner, Harry
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