The Light Stuff: Space Humor-From Sputnik to Shuttle

by Bob Ward, Walter Cronkite (Introduction)

In this new anthology of astronautical humor, Bob Ward – a newspaperman who began covering space in the old Mercy days and followed it through Gemini, Apollo and beyond – has collected and reported hundreds of the era’s choicest anecdotes, its bon mots, putdowns, puns and pranks. If many seem outrageous, it may be because the culprits shared the philosophy of that anonymous sage who said, “A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.”

295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

A former editor-in-chief of The Huntsville Times, Bob Ward covered the von Braun rocket team as a reporter.