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

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Burgess, Colin, 1947- [author.]

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TextSeries: Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflightPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803285996 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon.DDC classification:

629.450092/2 23

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TL789.85.A1 B85 2016

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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