{"id":4301,"date":"2016-05-09T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:45:12","slug":"new-biography-on-purdues-first-astronaut-launches-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/09\/new-biography-on-purdues-first-astronaut-launches-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New Biography on Purdue\u2019s First Astronaut Launches this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue\u2019s first astronaut alumnus, Hoosier native, and National hero Gus Grissom died nearly 50 years ago in the pre-launch test for the <em>Apollo 1<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepress.purdue.edu\/titles\/format\/9781557537454\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4303 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/05\/9781557537454.jpg?resize=231%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop PDF\" width=\"231\" height=\"322\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>mission along with astronauts Ed White and fellow Purdue alumnus Roger Chaffee. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepress.purdue.edu\/titles\/format\/9781557537454\">Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom<\/a><\/em><\/strong> draws on extensive interviews with fellow astronauts, NASA engineers, family members, and friends of Gus Grissom. Veteran technology journalist and science writer, George Leopold, delivers a comprehensive survey of Grissom\u2019s life that places his career in the context of the Cold War and the history of human spaceflight. <strong><em>Calculated Risk<\/em><\/strong> will be published and available in early June, however the book will be launched this week at several events in Chicago, Lafayette, and Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>May 11-13, Purdue University Press will feature <strong><em>Calculated Risk<\/em><\/strong> at the <a href=\"bookexpoamerica.com\">BookExpo America<\/a> in Chicago via the Bookmasters\/AtlasBooks exhibit (booth #900). \u00a0On Friday, May 13 the author will be signing books at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookexpoamerica.com\/en\/Sessions\/26627\/Autographing-Session-with-George-Leopold\">1pm CST in the BEA autographing section<\/a>. Afterward Leopold will participate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/authorsvoice.net\/event\/george-leopold-authors-voice-bea\/\">2:15pm livestream interview with Authors\u2019 Voice<\/a> where listeners can ask questions (before or during the interview) and purchase autographed copies of the book.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, May 14, George Leopold will be signing <strong><em>Calculated Risk<\/em><\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.main-street-books.com\/\">Main Street Books<\/a> in downtown Lafayette from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1590106771299741\/\">10:30-11:30am<\/a>; on the same day he will sign books in downtown Indianapolis at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyreadsbooks.org\/\">Indy Reads Books<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1099933593412281\/\">3:00-4:00pm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue\u2019s first astronaut alumnus, Hoosier native, and National hero Gus Grissom died nearly 50 years ago in the pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission along with astronauts Ed White and fellow Purdue alumnus Roger Chaffee. Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom draws on extensive interviews with fellow astronauts, NASA engineers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[92,114],"tags":[4887,4869],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_release","category-pup","tag-astronaut","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-17n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}