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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

In this lively memoir written with Michael Cassut, Tom Stafford begins by recounting his early successes as a test pilot, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and USAF general. As President Nixon's stand-in at the 1971 Soviet funeral for three cosmonauts, he opened the door to the possibility of cooperation in space between Russians and Americans. Stafford's Apollo-Soyuz team was the first group of Americans to work at the cosmonaut training center, and also the first to visit Baikonur, the top-secret Soviet launch center, in 1974. His 1975 "handshake in space" with Soviet commander Aleksei Leonov (who became a lifelong friend) proved to the world that the two opposing countries could indeed work succesfully together.

(Extracted from the dust jacket).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Contents.

-Acknowledgments.

-Prologue: "We Have Capture!"

-1. Gaining Altitude.

-2. Silver Wings.

-3. Cold Warrior.

-4. Higher and Faster.

-5. Houston.

-6. The First Gemini.

-7. Hold Kill.

-8. Lambert Field.

-9. "If He Dies, You've Got to Bring Him Back!"

-10. Chariots of Fire.

-11. Steps to the Moon.

-12. "Houston, Tell the World We Have Arrived!"

-13. Chief Astronaut.

-14. Life and Death on Salyut.

-15. Behind the Curtain.

-16. "ASTP Is Dead!"

-17. Handshake in Space.

-18. Edwards and Red Hats.

-19. Opening the Door Again.

-20. Charting the Future.

-21. ISS is Born.

-22. Crises.

-Epilogue: Odyssey Year.

-Notes.

-Index.