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Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Colin, 1947- author.
- Doolan, Kate, 1962- author.
- Vis, Bert, author.
- Series:
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronauts--United States--Biography.
- Astronauts.
- Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Space flight to the Moon--History.
- Space flight to the Moon.
- Manned space flight.
- Astronauts--Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- Publisher.
- Contents:
- A routine training flight
- Capt. Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF
- Gemini twins
- Elliot McKay See Jr
- Capt. Charles Arthur Bassett II, USAF
- Countdown to disaster
- Lt. Col. Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF
- Lt. Ccol. Edward Higgins White II, USAF
- Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN
- By the light of a Soviet moon
- Russia's cosmonauts
- A lonely stretch of road
- Maj. Edward Galen Givens Jr., USAF
- Mayday, mayday!
- Maj. Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780803285972
- 0803285973
- 9780803285996
- 080328599X
- OCLC:
- 945613082
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