Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan

Fallen Astronauts

Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Colin Burgess is the author or editor of several books on spaceflight, including Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska, 2010) and Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the "Challenger" Legacy (Nebraska, 2000). Kate Doolan is a longtime space researcher and writer. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS space program. Capt. Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas and is the author of The Last Man on the Moon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780803285095
• ISBN-10: 0803285094
• Artikelnr.: 44139442

Autorenporträt

Colin Burgess is the author or editor of several books on spaceflight, including Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska, 2010) and Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the "Challenger" Legacy (Nebraska, 2000). Kate Doolan is a longtime space researcher and writer. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS space program. Capt. Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas and is the author of The Last Man on the Moon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Routine Training Flight
    Capt. Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF
2. Gemini Twins 
    Elliot McKay See Jr.
    Capt. Charles Arthur Bassett II, USAF
3. Countdown to Disaster
    Lt. Col. Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF
    Lt. Col. Edward Higgins White II, USAF
    Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN
4. By the Light of a Soviet Moon
     Russia’s Cosmonauts
5. A Lonely Stretch of Road
     Maj. Edward Galen Givens Jr., USAF
6. “Mayday, Mayday!”
     Maj. Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC
Epilogue
Sources
Index