COLLINS, Michael; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey.
"For Maj Gen David M. Jones with great appreciation for all you did in getting us to the moon": First Edition of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey; Inscribed by Astronaut Michael Collins
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1974.
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First edition of one of the finest memoirs of space travel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Maj Gen David M. Jones with great appreciation for all you did in getting us to the moon. Michael Collins." The recipient David M. Jones was a pilot during World War II includes being one of the Doolittle Raiders whose exploits in April 1942 were dramatized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. In December 1964, Jones became Deputy Assistant Administrator for Manned Space Flight with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In July 1965, he was given responsibility for development of the S-IVB Orbital Workshop and spent-stage experiment support module (SSESM) – a concept of "in-orbit" conversion of a spent S-IVB stage to a shelter. In August 1965, he took on the additional duties as of the Saturn/Apollo Applications (SAA) Acting Director. Then, in May 1967, he assumed duties as commander of the Air Force Eastern Test Range, Patrick AFB and Cape Kennedy AFS, Florida. He received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1969 and Collins received it in 1970, after Collins journey to the moon. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert T. McCall. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh. An exceptional association linking two important figures in this historical journey to the moon.
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys was in 1974, and it is an autobiographical account by the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut. Collins writes his own work and does not hire ghost writers, explaining that "[n]o matter how good the ghost, I am convinced that a book loses realism when an interpreter stands between the storyteller and his audience" (Collins, 2001). Indeed, Collins writing has been called "the best-written book yet by any of the astronauts" by Time magazine. The New York Times Book Review said, "No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly.”
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey.
$2,500.00
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