West Virginia
Chuck Yeager’s Parents & His Childhood Church
There were two Methodists churches in Hamlin. One was the Southern Methodist Church all Democrats, the other congregation was Northern Methodist Church the hardcore Republicans of Lincoln County, where we belonged. On election day, Dad traveled the hollers armed with two-dollar bills and whiskey trying to buy GOP votes. Dad, Albert Hal Yeager, had Dutch…
Read MoreARPS – early astronaut training
In late 1961, we were ready to screen applicants for our first class at the space school, and because they would be the first bunch, the screening process was particularly thorough. We wanted only the very best pilots, and our first couple of classes consisted of experienced military test pilots, who had graduated from Edwards’…
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