About Melvin Croft Books
John Youskauskas is a commercial pilot for a major fractional jet operator with more than thirty years of experience in flight operations, aviation safety, and maintenance. Melvin Croft has more than forty years of experience as a professional geologist and is a longtime supporter of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Youskauskas and Croft are coauthors of Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Nebraska, 2024) and contributors to Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975 (Nebraska, 2010). Jerry Ross is a former NASA astronaut who flew on seven space shuttle missions. He is the author of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer.
