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...gone from the best and the brightest to "Geezers in Space." Where have you gone, Chuck Yeager? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. DAVE DYEHOUSE Frankton...
...biggest Jose Jimenez fan you ever saw? Alan Shepard, (not to be confused with Sam Shepard, who plays a great Yeager in this one) and you're looking at him. Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor. From his lips we get one of space's first slogans -- "everything is AOK" -- and some lesser-known launchpad gems, namely "Dear Lord, please don't let me f--- this...
...pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...rocket plane, pilot Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier...
...Yeager, who previously was undersecretarygeneral for administration, said she is confidentKottas will do "a fabulous job," but expressedconcern about preserving balance in theorganization's leadership...