Launch Pad Space Podcast - Episode 24 - Christopher Roosa The Launch Pad Space Podcast

Episode 024 – Son of Apollo – Christopher Roosa
Episode Summary
Christopher Roosa is a retired colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and a combat veteran. He is also the son of Apollo 14 Command Module pilot Stuart Roosa. In his book “Son of Apollo: The Adventures of a Boy Whose Father Went to the Moon,” He tells the story of his father’s humble beginnings growing up in Oklahoma. From there the elder Roosa became a smoke jumper, fighter pilot and test pilot before being chosen to become an astronaut in 1966.  In this episode of The Launch Pad Space Podcast, host Paul Ring talks to Christopher Roosa about his father, and growing up as a Son of Apollo.
Show Notes
Christopher A. Roosa
Stuart Roosa
“Son of Apollo”
Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Edwards Air Force Base
Apollo Program
Saturn V
Apollo 1
Apollo 11
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
The White House
Richard Nixon
Tricia Nixon Cox
Camp David
Ed White
Elvis Presley
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Alan Shepard
Ed Mitchell
John Young
Space Shuttle
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