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Dutton, March Date: 2001. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good. 2001. Dutton ISBN 0525945717 9780525945710 [US]

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Penguin Publishing Group ISBN 0525945717 9780525945710 [US]

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Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 2001. First. Hardcover. 0525945717 . 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.5 inches; 370 pages . 2001. Dutton ISBN 0525945717 9780525945710 [US]

Dutton, Date: 2001-02-28. hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. First edition, first printing looks new and unread but for former owner's blind stamp (emboss) to flyleaf. Hardcover in price intact jacket. Please email for photos. 2001. Dutton ISBN 0525945717 9780525945710 [US]

C2a: Dutton. Very Good. Date: 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E P Dutton, New York. 2001. 370 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Chris Kraft to NACA test pilot Steve (Stefan) Cavallo on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Besides the astronauts, Kraft was one of NASA's best-known personalities in the agency's heroic decade of the 1960s, once making the cover of Time. The blunt-speaking demeanor that made Kraft popular with the press is fully present in his memoir, in which he lets fly about various instances of his dissatisfaction with the performance of an astronaut, engineer, or contractor. Such dirty-laundry airing, verboten at the time by the publicity-conscious NASA, is one reason for space-history buffs to flock to Kraft's narrative, but the principal attraction is how he ramped up from scratch the flight control operation for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. When Sputnik beeped the U. S. Into a panic, Kraft was an engineer at the obscure National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) , quickly revamped as NASA. Tapped by the unsung organizer of manned flight, Robert Gilruth, to establish what became Mission Control, Kraft directed the ...