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.