"My father was an excellent stick-and-rudder man, as they would call him. He was just a really good pilot, had great instincts," says Roosa. "It was a bit of a controversy at the time because my father was the only astronaut to be selected for a prime crew having never served on a back-up crew, but Alan Shepard later said because the command module pilot gets the astronauts to the Moon and back, he wanted to make sure he got home!"