Category: Military Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN-10: 142412574X
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 270
The author describes flying on the Atlantic Missile Range in support of ICBM and missile testing during the cold war, and support of NASA space programs. Author was involved in a test of Gemini space suits. Near the end of the test the author and another pilot experienced a severe 100% oxygen fire which nearly took their lives. The author made some recommendations to NASA. Five years later the Apollo One Capsule experienceda similar fire in which three astronauts: Grissom, White and Chaffee lost their lives. The author asks if they might have survived if NASA had paid attention to his recommendations to a review Board. The book also gives details of the type of physical examination the astronauts have to undergo and describes some of the purposes of various tests.
Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
