The All-American Boys

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Summary: The All American Boys
Review: Walter Cunningham is at it again, his first All American Boys book was a great hit and now the up dated edition with much added material. Any person interested in space and the lives of our astronauts will enjoy reading over and over again. The book will become a great collectors edition to any book collection on space and the men that risk their lives to go there. The book goes where no man has gone before, into the lives of our first astronauts and into the future of space travel. Walt tells a story of how it felt to be on the NASA team of astronauts and how the public and the press treated them. Walter Cunningham was as close as you can get to what was one of our first space program disasters being on the back up crew of Apollo 1. You can only wonder what it must have felt like for him to be on the back up crew of Apollo 1. What it must have felt like to be strapped into Apollo 7 with the memories of the men before him that gave their lives. Cunningham talks about this in the new edition along with the Challenger and Columbia disaster and where we go from here. This book is a must read book. Larry Hobson-Author "The Day Of The Rose"

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Summary: IMHO, The Best Insight Into the Gemini and Apollo Years
Review: With this book, Walt Cunningham gifts the world with a straight-forward, unvarnished look at the people and events that took us to the moon and into the Shuttle age. It is the only account I've found (and I've read a great number of them) whose sole agenda is to relate his experiences of the quest for the moon and what followed. Walt leaves out the bone-picking, petty bickering, and outright character assassination that mars most other accounts, choosing instead to take the high road. This gives us, his readers, a book that puts us right smack in the middle of NASA in its heyday -- almost as if we are a fly on the wall. Only an astronaut could have written this book, and I'm thankful Walt choose to be the one.