Burgess, Colin, 1947-
Fallen astronauts heroes who died reaching for the moon / [electronic resource] : Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan. - Revised edition. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. --
9780803285996 080328599X
Astronauts--Death.
Manned space flight.
Space flight to the moon--History.
Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
Astronauts--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
TL789.85.A1 / B85 2016
629.450092/2
Fallen astronauts heroes who died reaching for the moon / [electronic resource] : Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan. - Revised edition. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. --
9780803285996 080328599X
Astronauts--Death.
Manned space flight.
Space flight to the moon--History.
Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
Astronauts--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
TL789.85.A1 / B85 2016
629.450092/2