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Authors: Robert Zimmerman

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Christmas Eve telecast, 198, 202, 204-13
Christmas gifts, 219-20, 221, 222
dating Marilyn, 31, 32, 33-34
fatigue during mission, 174, 178-80
Gemini 7 mission, 106-8, 110-11, 115-18

 

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interest in rockets, 30-31, 32, 33, 48
later career, 249, 250-51
marriage, 33-34
meeting with Lindbergh, 10
mother and, 3, 64-65
at Naval Academy, 32-34
navigational tasks, 54-56, 63, 96, 99-100, 127-28, 167-68, 171, 216, 222-24
Navy service, 29-30, 32, 34-36
nickname ("Shaky"), 54, 224
as pilot, 29-31, 34-36, 48
preparations for mission, 3-4, 187-88
press conferences, 195-96
religious beliefs, xiv, 252
sleeping difficulties, 59-61, 66-67
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