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The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
By Cassutt, Michael
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- 9781613737002 9781613737033
- Publisher
- Chicago Review
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Starred Review on July 1, 2018 | Science and Technology
The remarkable NASA career of George Abbey (b. 1932) spanned 37 years, from the inception of the Apollo program to the construction of the International Space Station. Despite his importance to the agency, Abbey's major contributions rarely made the press, and he was sometimes characterized in a negative light: "a Godfather type." Cassutt (Who's Who In Space) magnificently details Abbey's rise in authority, including his selection of every astronaut class f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
