Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon /

Burgess, Colin, 1947-

Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan. - Revisedition. edition. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight .

Includes bibliographies 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. --



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


Electronic Books.

TL789 / .F355 2016