Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (NASA SP-350 Illustrated Edition) - First-hand Accounts by Astronauts and Managers including von Braun, Aldrin, Collins by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Progressive Management
Published: 2011-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

The average Apollo Astronaut was medium-sized, slightly under 5 ft 10 in., about 160 pounds. He was 38.6 years old when he made his flight or, in the case of the four who flew two Apollo missions, his first one. The blue-eyed outnumbered the brown, 16 to 8, and five had eyes described as hazel or green. Nineteen had (or had had) brown hair, seven blond, one black, and there were two redheads, Schweickart and Roosa. Six of them were well over on the bald side, Stafford almost at the peeled-egg stage.

The twenty-seven who were married (Swigert and Schmitt were not) produced an average of 2.8 children. Generally the astronauts - twenty-three Protestants and six Catholics - adhered more closely to formal religion than their contemporaries; a high proportion of them served as elders, stewards, deacons, or vestrymen. Presbyterian Aldrin administered holy communion to himself inside Eagle after it landed on the Moon, and when Frank Borman was orbiting the Moon he apologized to his fellow members of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church because his absence made it impossible for him to serve as a lay reader on Christmas Eve. The prayer he did say reached a somewhat larger audience and caused an atheist to sue NASA, unsuccessfully, on a separation-of-state-and-church issue.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.