The Man You Never Knew You Knew It\'s one of the most powerful and popular images in the hiStory of space exploration: an Astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, Untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue.
He and his wife, Pati McCand.
Bruce serves on the board of directors of the Worthy Garden Club, an Oregon-based environmental organization, and the Austin Public Library Foundation.
He is the author of Sour Lake (2011), Beatrice and the Basilisk (2014), and, with his daughter Carson, Carson Clare\'s Trail Guide to Avoiding Death (And Other Unpleasant Consequences) (2017).
After teaching at Saint David\'s School in New York City, he returned to Austin to practice law in 1995.
He graduated from the Plan II Honors Program of the University of Texas in 1983 and went on to earn advanced degrees from the University of Reading in England and the University of Texas School of Law.
He could feel it." About author(s): Bruce McCandless III grew up in the shadow of Houston\'s Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab eras.
He was almost there.
The young Astronaut hadn\'t quite reached his lifelong goal of touching the lunar surface, but he was close.
He would be talking to two men as they walked on the moon.
He was going to be part of it.
But even he was having trouble believing that human beings --his colleagues and friends--were up there in the sky, getting ready to do something no one had ever done before.
He brushed sentiments away like so many spider webs.
He knew the formulas required for achieving orbital velocity, could tell you the fuel mixtures you needed, the stages and timing of rocket-booster separations.
He was an engineer, a True son of science, a distant nephew of Sir Isaac Newton.
Bruce McCandless had just turned thirty-two.
The moon floated serene and imperturbable in front of him like a black-and-white photograph of itself, Earth\'s gravitational remora, her pale silent sister, movie star and legend, goddess and mirage.
The moon, a waxing crescent, was standing thirty degrees above the western horizon, and my father slipped into a sort of reverie as he sped toward it on NASA Road One.
From Wonders All Around : "Bruce McCandless turned his Jeep around and screeched out of the cul-de-sac in front of our house for the ten-minute drive to the space center.
And finally, it is an exploration of the mindset of one unique individual, and the courage, imagination, and tenacity that propelled him and his country to their place in the forefront of space history.
Recounted with insight and humor, this book explores the relationship between a father and a son, men of two very different generations.
It is also a tale of perseverance and devotion.
Wonders All Around is more than a catalogue of McCandless\'s extraordinary achievements, which included work on the design, deployment, and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Bruce McCandless II was an Astronaut for 24 years, and his Story encompasses the development of the space agency itself--the changes in focus, in personnel, in approach, and in the city of Houston that grew up with it.
But the road to that Incredible feat was not the sure bet it should have been for such a gifted man.
When he stepped into the cosmos to test the Manned Maneuvering Unit, he became a space Flight icon.
McCandless supported subsequent Apollo flights and developed technology and techniques his fellow astronauts used during the Skylab program, working behind the scenes until he was chosen to ride Challenger into space on the tenth shuttle mission.
He was Houston\'s capsule communicator--the person talking to the astronauts--as Apollo 11\'s Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind in 1969.
Bruce McCandless II, a Navy fighter pilot, joined NASA in 1966.
Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space is the thoroughly engrossing, extensively researched Story of his inspiring life and groundbreaking accomplishments, as told by his son, a gifted writer and storyteller.
The Man You Never Knew You Knew It\'s one of the most powerful and popular images in the hiStory of space exploration: an Astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, Untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue
