1. The Right Stuff I. The Angels

2. According to the author, which celebrity did Jane Conrad resemble? Jean Simmons

3. something “…was part of the official Wife Lingo for tiptoeing blindfolded around the subject.” (page 1)

4. Where did Jane Conrad attend college? Bryn Mawr

5. Where did Pete Conrad attend college? Princeton

6. Where did Jane meet Pete? At a debutante’s party at the Gulph Mills Club in Philadelphia

7. He was thrown out stealing second base. “… the way they talked about it, with such breezy, slangy terminology, was the same way they talked about sports.” (page 3)

8. What was Charles Conrad’s nickname? The Hickory Kid

9. When did Jane and Pete marry? Two days after Pete graduated from Princeton

10. In 1955, where were Jane and Pete living? Jacksonville, Florida

11. Burned beyond recognition “… quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous foul that has burned up in a stove…” (page 3)

12. Pete’s and Jane’s first child, born in 1954, is named…? Peter

13. Jane and Pete built their brick house, which they painted white and the windows black. How much did it cost? Eleven thousand dollars

14. Bud Jennings crashed into the swamp in what type of plane? an SNJ (North American T-6 Texan)

15. Friend of Widows and Orphans Self explanatory (page 4)

16. Pete was transferred from Jacksonville to which naval air station? The Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland Aerial view of the hangars in the late 1940s

17. Why was Pete transferred to Pax River? To enter the Navy’s new test-pilot school

18. What was the name of the community that Jane and Pete lived in at Pax River? North Town Creek

19. What was Group 20? The name of Pete’s flight test class

20. Pushing the outside of the envelope Probing the outer limits of a particular aircraft’s performance (page 8)

21. What was Al Bean’s nickname? Beano

22. What nickname did Pete give to Jim Lovell? Shaky

23. How did Ted Whelan die? He fell like a rock from 8,100 feet when his parachute failed.