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The Light of Earth: Reflections on a Life in Space (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Al Worden, Francis French is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>Apollo 15</i> command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness and potent views but also recognized as a warm and well-liked person who devoted much of his life after retiring from NASA to sharing his spaceflight experiences.<br><br> Worden had nearly finished writing this book before his passing in 2020 at the age of eighty-eight. Coauthored with spaceflight historian Francis French, <i>The Light of Earth<
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- Author
- Al Worden, Francis French
- Publisher
- University Of Nebraska Press (mare Nostrum)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496228659
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Engineering, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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