John Glenn: A Memoir

6 best books like John Glenn: A Memoir (John Glenn): Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond, A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, A Reporter's Life, Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, Breaking the Chains of Gravity

Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Author	Gene Kranz
ISBN	0425179877

This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was...

A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Author	Andrew Chaikin
ISBN	0140272011

On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twentythree moon...

A Reporter's Life

Author	Walter Cronkite
ISBN	0394578791

"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR".
--The Wall Street Journal
"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year".
--Ann Landers
"Entertaining . . . The story of a modest...

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

Author	Michael D. Leinbach
ISBN	1628728515

Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when Columbia disintegrated on reentry before a nation's eyes on February 1, 2003. And it would be Mike Leinbach who would be a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal,...

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

Author	James R. Hansen
ISBN	0743257510

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. In a penetrating...

Breaking the Chains of Gravity

Author	Amy Shira Teitel
ISBN	1472911179

NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the Moon in 1969. But NASA's prehistory is a rarely told tale, one that is largely absent from the popular space-age literature but that gives the context behind the lunar program. America's space agency wasn't...