Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-425).
Contents
List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Gemini raises the bar -- 2. A rendezvous in space -- 3. The ballet of weightlessness -- 4. The risk stuff -- 5. The astronaut enigma -- 6. Starting over -- 7. Leaving the good earth -- 8. A test pilot's dream -- 9. The highest mountain -- Epilogue -- References.