The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties (Space Exploration)

Bought it for my wife, who just lost her dad. He was part of the Apollo 13 project and there are sections that mention him by name & his part in the project. Interesting book!

A brilliant addition to the early history of US manned spaceflight; containing new material on the unsuccessful NASA and MOL candidates. The book highlights the tensions that existed between the USAF and NASA over the selection of astronauts for their programmes, and the clear inter-twining of the candidates and the choices they had to make