Francis French, Colin Burgess

Into That Silent Sea

Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Francis French is the former director of events for Sally Ride Science, and the current director of education at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Colin Burgess is a former flight service director with Qantas¿Airways and the author of many books on space flight, including Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon and Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy, both available in Bison Books editions. A NASA public affairs officer from 1958 to 1969, Paul Haney was known widely as NASA¿s ¿voice of mission control.¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780803226395
• ISBN-10: 080322639X
• Artikelnr.: 26406226

Autorenporträt

Francis French is the director of education at the San Diego Air and Space Museum and the coauthor with Colin Burgess of In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Nebraska 2007).   Colin Burgess is a former flight service director with Qantas Airlines and the author of many books on spaceflight, including Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, available in a Bison Books edition.   A NASA public affairs officer from 1958 to 1969, Paul Haney was known widely as NASA's "voice of mission control."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. First to Fly
2. Lighting the Candle
3. The Pursuit of Liberty
4. Flight of the Eagle
5. To Rise Above
6. Heavenly Twins
7. The Two Wallys
8. A Change of Altitude
9. A Seagull in Flight
10. Stepping into the Void
References
Index