We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.

STAFFORD, Thomas P with Michael Cassutt.

$300.00

Item Number: 147235

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

First edition, early printing of this exhilarating memoir of an Apollo space flight commander. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ken, Tom Stafford.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

"In his career as an astronaut, Thomas Stafford saw it all: Gene Cernan's fogged-up pressure helmet, the mountains of the Moon oh-so-close, a Soviet handshake in orbit. Stafford was truly one of those few who stood on the shoulders of giants and made history" (Tom Hanks).