Wonders
All
Around
The Incredible True Story of
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the
First Untethered Flight in Space
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It’s one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, floating untethered and alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around is the thoroughly engrossing, extensively researched story of his inspiring life and groundbreaking accomplishments, as told by his son, a gifted writer and storyteller.
McCandless, a Navy fighter pilot, joined NASA in 1966. 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. McCandless developed technology his fellow astronauts used until he himself rode Challenger into space on the tenth shuttle mission. But the road to that incredible feat was not the sure bet it should have been for such a gifted man.
Bruce McCandless II was an astronaut for 24 years, and his career reflects the accomplishments and accolades, the brilliance and broken hearts, of the men and women of the American space program from the mid-sixties through 1990. But Wonders All Around is more than a catalog of McCandless’s extraordinary achievements, which included work on the design, deployment, and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. It is also a human tale of perseverance and devotion, disappointment and redemption.
Recounted with insight and humor, this book explores the relationship between a father and a son, men of two very different generations. And finally, it is an exploration of the character 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.
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Bruce McCandless is also the author of genre- bending fiction that melds fantasy, science fiction, and western themes. His latest work, In the Land of Dead Horses, is a spine-tingling tale of Texas history and supernatural terror. A prequel to 2011’s Sour Lake, In the Land of Dead Horses reintroduces readers to Texas Ranger Jewel Lightfoot and his macabre world of double-barreled demon hunting.
In the Land of Dead Horses tells the story of Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot's 1908 pursuit of a resurrected horror from another age--a manifestation of the Mayan god of darkness, unearthed from its subterranean crypt in the wastelands of the Chihuahuan Desert and set loose on an unsuspecting world. The dead, it turns out, have no love for the living.
It's 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. Slow-talking Sheriff Reeves Duncan, with the help of Texas Ranger Jewel Lightfoot and a motley crew of unimpressive gentlemen, needs to put an end to the murders, and soon. But it won't be easy. Because no one's ever seen a killer like this before.
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