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English Year 2015
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN TONIGHT?
THE MOST INTERESTING PLACE
COLONEL TANK AND COLONEL GAS
SCUM JOBS
THE CITADEL OF AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH
THE BATTLE OF MUROC
OSCAR EIGHTBALL AND THE CURBSTONE CLINIC
STAPP’S FIRST RIDES
ANTICIPATING STRICT COMPLIANCE
G-FORE CHIMPS
BROTHER, WE ARE THE GOATS
EVICTED
SOLO ON LOVERS LANE
WAITING FOR A TIGER TO SPRING
SUBJECT HAD CONSIDERABLE APPREHENSION
THE CONFERENCE
SPACE SCIENTISTS IN HOLLYWOOD
SPACE SCIENTISTS IN SPACE
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT APPARATUS
KICKED UPSTAIRS
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
EXIT FROM VALLEY FORGE
NAZI DOCTORS AND THE NEVER-ENDING ROAD TRIP
WASHINGTON
SLUGGING AWAY AT THE STANDARDS
WHO WANTS A RESURRECTION, ANYWAY?
HONOR AND VIOLATION
THE STAPP YEARS
APPENDIX: H0W FAST?
NOTES
INTERVIEWS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN TONIGHT?
THE MOST INTERESTING PLACE
COLONEL TANK AND COLONEL GAS
SCUM JOBS
THE CITADEL OF AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH
THE BATTLE OF MUROC
OSCAR EIGHTBALL AND THE CURBSTONE CLINIC
STAPP’S FIRST RIDES
ANTICIPATING STRICT COMPLIANCE
G-FORE CHIMPS
BROTHER, WE ARE THE GOATS
EVICTED
SOLO ON LOVERS LANE
WAITING FOR A TIGER TO SPRING
SUBJECT HAD CONSIDERABLE APPREHENSION
THE CONFERENCE
SPACE SCIENTISTS IN HOLLYWOOD
SPACE SCIENTISTS IN SPACE
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT APPARATUS
KICKED UPSTAIRS
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
EXIT FROM VALLEY FORGE
NAZI DOCTORS AND THE NEVER-ENDING ROAD TRIP
WASHINGTON
SLUGGING AWAY AT THE STANDARDS
WHO WANTS A RESURRECTION, ANYWAY?
HONOR AND VIOLATION
THE STAPP YEARS
APPENDIX: H0W FAST?
NOTES
INTERVIEWS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
