Bibliograph

Light this candle, the life and times of Alan Shepard, Neal Thompson

Type

Label

Light this candle, the life and times of Alan Shepard, Neal Thompson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Light this candle

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

76794937

Responsibility statement

Neal Thompson

Sub title

the life and times of Alan Shepard

Summary

Presents a biography of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, drawing from private papers and interviews with family members, colleagues, and friends to examine his career as a pilot, his marriage and family, his competitiveness, his trips to outer space and the moon, and his death in 1998

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