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Shattered Dreams The Lost and Canceled Space Missions / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Burgess, Colin, 1947- author.
Contributor:
Thomas, Don, 1955- writer of foreword.
Series:
Outward odyssey.
Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Manned space flight--History.
Manned space flight.
Astronauts--Biography.
Astronauts.
Outer space--Exploration--History.
Outer space.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages).
Manufacture:
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Summary:
"'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Prologue: end of a spaceflight dream
Losing the moon: Apollo, the abandoned missions
Earthbound astronaut: scientist-astronaut Duane ("Doc") Graveline
Born beneath the Southern Cross: NASA's Group 6 astronaut Philip K. Chapman
Svetlana's story: Russia's journalist-in-space program and cosmonaut-journalist Svetlana Omelchenko
Unfulfilled ambitions: Lt. Cdr. Stephen D. Thorne, USN
The greatest gesture: oceanographer Robert E. Stevenson
Test pilot and ex-astronaut: Group 5 astronaut Lt. Cdr. John S. Bull, USN
An Indonesian flag in space: payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono
Countdown to Skynet: Britain's first astronaut candidates
Patience, persistence, and guts: the extraordinary story of Frank K. Ellis
Vostok lady: pilot and parachutist Marina Popovich
With stars in her eyes: Group 19 mission specialist Patricia Hilliard Robertson
New Hampshire to the new frontier: payload specialist candidate Robert J. Wood
Argentina's only astronaut: Fernando ("Frank") Caldeiro.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781496214201
149621420X
9781496214225
1496214226
OCLC:
1088722802

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