On Monday March 3, 2014 the American astronaut William Reid Pogue passed away. He was a veteran of the Skylab space laboratory who became an author, a speaker and an educator after his career at NASA. As a pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, he departed on November 16, 1973 and returned to Earth on February 8, 1974. At the time, it was the longest manned space mission ever.
After retiring from the Air Air and NASA in 1975, William Reid Pogue remained in the field working as an aerospace consultant and as speaker and educator. He produced video on space flight and in 1991 published the book “How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?”, in which answered 270 questions he received during his speeches in schools. In 1992 he also published a science fiction novel, “The Trikon Deception”, with writer Ben Bova.

In the course of his work as a speaker, William Reid Pogue was asked other questions, to which he replied in a new book, “Space Trivia”, published in 2003. In 2011 he published his autobiography, “But for the Grace of God: An Autobiography of an Aviator and Astronaut”.