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Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan, with Bert Vis ; with a foreword by Eugene A. Cernan.
LIBRA TL789.85.A1 B85 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Colin, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronauts--United States--Biography.
- Astronauts.
- Death.
- United States.
- Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Soviet Union.
- Space flight to the Moon--History.
- Space flight to the Moon.
- Space flight to the moon.
- History.
- Astronauts--Death.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This book enriches the saga of mankind's greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race--by telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died reaching for the moon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803213328
- 0803262124
- OCLC:
- 51751432
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