Book Review: Wonders All Around

Wonders All Around

The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space

by Bruce McCandless III

Pub Date 13 Jul 2021

Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult) | Science

I was sent a copy of Wonders All Around from Greenleaf Publishing Group in exchange for my honest review which is as follows:

Most if not all are familiar with one of the most amazing and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue.

But how many of us know about the man himself? In Wonders All Around his son gives us a glimpse into the life of Bruce McCandles the II.

Bruce McCandles II was a Navy fighter pilot, joined NASA in 1966. He was Houston’s capsule communicator — the person talking to the astronauts — as Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind in 1969. McCandles would go to support subsequent Apollo flights and developed technology and techniques his fellow astronauts used during the Skylab program. He worked behind the scenes until he was chosen to ride Challenger into space on the tenth shuttle mission. When he stepped into the cosmos to test the Manned Maneuvering Unit…