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Author:

Burgess, Colin, 1947-

Title:

Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Astronauts--United States--Biography.
Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
Space flight to the moon--History.
Manned space flight.
Astronauts--Death.

Other Authors:

Doolan, Kate, 1962-
Vis, Bert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- Publisher.

Series:

Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight

ISBN:

0803285094 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803285095 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)931226838

LCCN:

2015042585

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)