". . . In remembering Cy Baker, . . . . [l]et us think first of his dedication to his job . . . . How difficult to maintain the proper sense of dedication in this highly visible environment with the applause always directed elsewhere! . . ."
with--an autograph letter signed by his wife Pat to Anatole Forostenko sending the typescript. 1 page, 8vo. Np, 11 September 1982.
Cyril Eugene Baker (1914-1982) was Administrative Officer in the Astronaut Office of the Manned Spaceflight Center (today Johnson Space Center) in Houston. In attendance at his funeral in Pasadena, TX, on August 30, 1982, were many of the NASA astronauts from early manned missions whom he came to know through his work at the Center.
From the files of Anatole Forostenko, Chief Russian Language Instructor-Interpreter during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.