Fallen astronauts [electronic resource] :heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan.
By: Burgess, Colin.
Contributor(s): Vis, Bert | Doolan, Kate | Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight.Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 2015)Edition: Revised edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803285996; 080328599X.Subject(s): Astronauts -- Death | Manned space flight | Space flight to the moon -- History | Astronauts -- Soviet Union -- Biography | Astronauts -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 629.450092/2 Online resources: Full text available: 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. -- Publisher.
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