1) Jane Conrad met her future husband Pete at a debutante party in Philadelphia. They married in 1955 after Pete graduated from Princeton and lived in Jacksonville, Florida with their son Peter. 2) Pete was transferred to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland to enter the Navy's new test pilot school. There, he and Jane lived in the community of North Town Creek. 3) During his time as a test pilot, Pete pushed aircraft to their limits and probed the outer edges of performance. However, the work was dangerous as one of his friends, Ted Whelan, died when his parachute failed during a jump from 8,100 feet.

1. The Right StuffI. 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 OrphansSelf explanatory (page 4)

16. Pete was transferred from Jacksonville to which naval air station? The Patuxent River Naval Air Station in MarylandAerial 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 envelopeProbing 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.