JOHNSON, WALLACE A (35 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Signed. Signed copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

paperback. Etat : Very Good++. 1995. Harry N Abrams Pub. Pages are all clean and bright, no marks. Cover is clean and strong.

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Trade paperback. Etat : Very good. No dust jacket. First edition. 469 p. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall Book is in near fine condition, clean and tight. Story of a Scandinavian's migration from Europe (Part One) to Minnesota (Part Two) in the 1870's.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Cathy Johnson (illustrateur). Near Fine; No personal marks; No internal markings of any kind.; 11.10 X 6.90 X 1.40 inches.

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Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. RR-This regular trade size PB is VERY GOOD with some edge wear. 190pp. No pub. date or other info stated. white w/black lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Papier. Etat : Gut. Kleines stabiles Papier von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0284 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Echtfoto. Etat : Gut. Echtfoto von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0285 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Echtfoto. Etat : Gut. Kleines Druckerfoto von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0286 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Karte. Etat : Gut. Kleiner Fotodruck auf stabilem Papier von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0259 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Echtfoto. Etat : Gut. Kleines Druckerfoto von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0258 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Zettel. Etat : Gut. Zettel von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "Appollo II (The Lunar Landing) Test Pilot" /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0257 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Zettel. Etat : Gut. Zettel von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "Apollo Project Test Pilot" /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0062 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Visitenkarte. Etat : Gut. Visitenkarte von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal GAD-0061 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Karte. Etat : Gut. Index Card von Wallace Johnson Wallace Johnson mit schwarzem Stift signiert mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "Test Pilot Apollo Project (The Lunar Landing)" /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee "NASA Test Pilot (Apollo 11 Lunar Landing) Wallace A. Johnson --- ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- An Alameda man who was central to putting American astronauts on the moon turns 93 on Wednesday. Wallace Johnson -- who still flies planes with the Alameda Aero Club, even in his 90s -- began his career as a Navy sailor at only 16. Now, he's the world's leading expert at landing an Apollo spacecraft, even though he's never left Earth's atmosphere. As a test pilot for North American Aviation, he spent long hours running detailed simulations, and ultimately trained the astronauts who went to the moon. "I have many, many hours of flying the capsule on the return flight, penetrating the earth's atmosphere," Johnson said. "If you came in too shallow, you would skip out, and if you came in too steep, you would burn up." Newspapers called Johnson the "ground astronaut" -- which was more flattering than another nickname he was given. "My wife called me a half-astronaut," Johnson confessed, lingering a bit too long on the first syllable of "astronaut." Johnson went to civilian pilot school even while continuing to serve as an enlisted man in the Navy. He was offered a chance to attend the Navy's electronics school, and became the chief electronics technician aboard the USS Hornet -- a World War II aircraft carrier that's since been retired and turned into a museum just up the street from Johnson's home in Alameda. It was his unusual combination of experience, with both electronics and airplanes, that made Johnson the perfect test pilot for North American Aviation, which built the command module for the Apollo space missions. They called on him in the wake of the fatal fire that killed three Apollo 1 astronauts. "You can see here that i'm pretty worn out," Johnson said, showing us a color photograph from 1967. "I've been in and out of that capsule I don't know how many times." The photo was one of a handful taken during the painstaking efforts to recreate the conditions of the Apollo 1 fire, with Johnson and two other test pilots in spacesuits, strapped into a simulator as engineers looked on. They ultimately found the electrical problem that likely started the fire, and the design flaw that kept the crew from opening the hatch. Though a setback for the space program, the work to prevent another tragedy launched a whole new career for Johnson: testing spacesuits, designing control layouts, writing manuals and ultimately training astronauts. "They were just ordinary guys, when you really get right down to it," he said. "They were all brilliant, for one thing, i will say that." Over the years, Johnson accumulated more than 60 astronauts' signatures in a copy of the book, "We Seven," about the pioneering Mercury manned space missions. Among the autographs are all seven Mercury astronauts, and the three who later died in Apollo 1. Johnson attended three of the Apollo launches, but retired shortly after training Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He stayed home and watched their historic first steps on the moon from his living room -- glued to the TV along with the rest of the nation. The passion for flight never left Johnson, who lives on his own, takes long walks and updates his blog regularly when he's not at the controls of an airplane. "I'm still flying," he said. "That keeps me busy, and out of trouble." /// Standort Wimregal PKis-Box79-U017 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Paperback. Etat : Good. First Edition. Pages 1-58. Black and white photos. Features: National convention of American Legion; Immigration; Stage Coach and Tavern Days; Our Winter Carnivals; An Answer to Our Critics; An anthology of one poem poets; Senator Moses' Three favorite stories; New Hampshire state Grange; Should the Governor's Council be abolished?; New Hampshire Private Schools - with photos of their principals; The Phillips Exeter Academy; Tilton School; New Hampton Literary Institution; Holderness School; Five Foremost Leaders in N.H.; Alcoholic Bi-Focalism; First Candidates for Governor's Council - with photos of Samuel A. Lovejoy and Jesse M. Barton; The Old Toll Bridge (poem); New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which bears a bit of pencil writing to top edge, otherwise a sound vintage copy.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. Sowder, John (illustrateur). 666 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. This item is printed on demand.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1955 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 48 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 48 Volume no.953 Hull, A. C,Johnson, W. M. (Wallace M.), 1912-.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1950 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 22 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 22 Volume no.3 Johnson, W. M. (Wallace M.), 1912-,Hull, A. C,Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.),United States. Forest Service.