Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan

Fallen Astronauts

Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon

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Produktbeschreibung

Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy (Nebraska 2000). Kate Doolan is a co-author of Australia Post¿s 1992 International Space Yearbook, Mission to Planet Earth. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS Space program. Captain Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas, and is the author of the The Last Man on the Moon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780803262126
• ISBN-10: 0803262124
• Artikelnr.: 21506446

Autorenporträt

Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy (Nebraska 2000). Kate Doolan is a co-author of Australia Post's 1992 International Space Yearbook, Mission to Planet Earth. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS Space program. Captain Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas, and is the author of the The Last Man on the Moon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Routine Training Flight
    Capt. Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF
2. Gemini Twins 
    Elliot McKay See Jr.
    Capt. Charles Arthur Bassett II, USAF
3. Countdown to Disaster
    Lt. Col. Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF
    Lt. Col. Edward Higgins White II, USAF
    Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN
4. By the Light of a Soviet Moon
     Russia’s Cosmonauts
5. A Lonely Stretch of Road
     Maj. Edward Galen Givens Jr., USAF
6. “Mayday, Mayday!”
     Maj. Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC
Epilogue
Sources
Index