Two Sides of the Moon
Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
by David Randolph Scott · first published 2004
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…wander into irrelevancies. I learned lots of new things. It had fun anecdotes. It was short. Regarding the "set number of heartbeats", David Scott mentions it while they were training for Gemini in "Two Sides of the Moon". Neil had a physically less demanding role in the mission and chose to train less hard. Great book, recommended.
on “To These Boys, Neil Armstrong Was Just Dad” ↗…were just now made public, either. He published this version (involving the low-flying Su-15 passing within 10-20 meters) at least as early as 2004, since it appears in English in his co-written book Two Sides of the Moon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312308663/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... ; Chapter 8).
on “Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on” ↗…to camp the night out in their spacecraft until the rescue party could reach them the next day. Alexei Leonov's 1st-person account can be read here: http://tinyurl.com/voskhod2 (taken from the book "Two Sides of the Moon", co-authored with Apollo 15's Dave Scott) I'd tend to agree with my above sibling that bringing guns in a spaceship sounds like the opposite of safe, but according to Leonov they had a pistol, and "plenty…
on “Soyuz capsule landing and retrieval photos” ↗His copilot on that Gemini mission, David Scott also praised Armstrong's actions. In the book Two Sides of the Moon he wrote something to the tune of "I don't know how Neil did it, but he did it", but I think it was related to pushing some buttons in an awkward place in an overhead panel in the spinning spacecraft…
on “A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong” ↗Alexey Leonov was also supposed to be the commander of the first Soviet lunar mission. He and David Scott (Apollo 15) together have written a book 'Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race.' https://www.amazon.com/Two-Sides-Moon-Story-Space-ebook/dp/B...
on “Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died” ↗