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Shattered Dreams The Lost and Canceled Space Missions / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Colin, 1947- author.
- 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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