Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight (57 page)

Wendt, Guenter

“The Wheel” (centrifuge)

White, Ed

death in launchpad fire

on Gemini 4

memorial to, on the moon

and Neil

one of Gemini Nine

White, Pat

White House ceremonies

Wiesner, Jerome B.

Williams, Brian

Williams, Clifton C.

Williams, Harold

Williams, Ted

Williams, Walt

Wilson, Charles E.

windows on spacecraft

Wright Patterson Air Force Base

X-15 rocket plane

XLR-99 rocket engine

Yardley, John

yaw maneuver

Yeager, Chuck

Young, John

Zond spacecraft

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In the course of his fifty-six-year career with NBC News, JAY BARBREE received an Emmy for his coverage of Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the moon, broke the news of the cause of the space shuttle
Challenger
accident, and continues to cover space for NBC TV and NBCnews.com. Barbree was also the lead writer for the
New York Times
bestseller
Moon Shot
with astronauts Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, and Neil Armstrong.

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Bicycles in War

Pilot Error

The Hydra Pit

The Day I Died

Moon Shot

A Journey Through Time

Destination Mars

Live from Cape Canaveral

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NEIL ARMSTRONG: A LIFE OF FLIGHT. Copyright © 2014 by Jay Barbree. Foreword copyright © 2014 by John Glenn. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Barbree, Jay.

      Neil Armstrong: a life of flight / Jay Barbree.—First edition.

          pages    cm

      ISBN 978-1-250-04071-8 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-4668-3634-1 (e-book)

   1.  Armstrong, Neil, 1930–2012.   2.  Astronauts—United States—Biography.   3.  Project Apollo (U.S.)—History.   4.  Space flight to the moon—History.   I.  Title.

      TL789.85.A75B37 2014

      629.450092—dc23

      [B]

2014008696

eISBN 9781466836341

First Edition: July 2014