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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt
Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The
first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned
flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three
astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA's
manned-spaceflight program. Known to many as a goofy, lighthearted
prankster, Eisele worked his way from the U.S. Naval Academy to
test pilot school and then into the select ranks of America's
prestigious astronaut corps. He was originally on the crew of
Apollo 1 before being replaced due to injury. After that crew died
in a horrific fire, Eisele was on the crew selected to return
Americans to space. Despite the success of Apollo 7, Eisele never
flew in space again, as divorce and a testy crew commander led to
the three astronauts being labeled as troublemakers. Unbeknownst to
everyone, after his retirement as a technical assistant for manned
spaceflight at NASA's Langley Research Center in 1972, Eisele wrote
in detail about his years in the air force and his time in the
Apollo program. Long after his death, Francis French discovered
Eisele's unpublished memoir, and Susie Eisele Black (Donn's widow)
allowed French access to her late husband's NASA files and personal
effects. Readers can now experience an Apollo story they assumed
would never be written as well as the story behind its discovery.
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