Into the Void

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John Youskauskas is a commercial pilot for a major fractional jet operator with more than thirty years of experience in flight operations, aviation safety, and maintenance. Melvin Croft has more than forty years of experience as a professional geologist and is a longtime supporter of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Youskauskas and Croft are coauthors of Come Fly with Us: NASA’s Payload Specialist Program (Nebraska, 2024) and contributors to Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska, 2010). Jerry Ross is a former NASA astronaut who flew on seven space shuttle missions. He is the author of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer.

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Into the Void focuses on the unique story of those who have ventured outside the spacecraft into the unforgiving vacuum of space, including the difficulty and danger, the adaptation required, and the euphoria of seeing space separated by only a thin faceplate.

Contenu

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Skywalkers
2. A Steep Learning Curve
3. We Choose to Go to the Moon
4. From the Moon to the Earth
5. Lost in a Sea of Stars
6. Don’t Overdrive Your Headlights
7. A Deeper Pool
8. Flying Free
9. We Deliver
10. A Lifetime of Memories
11. Murphy Is Always in the Mix
12. A Hole in the Ice
13. The Promise of Tomorrow
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    Index