Fallen astronauts [electronic resource] : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan.

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Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. --

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, Colin, 1947-
Other Authors: Doolan, Kate, 1962-
Vis, Bert
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Edition:Revised edition.
Series:Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight
Subjects:
Astronauts > United States > Biography.
Astronauts > Soviet Union > Biography.
Space flight to the moon > History.
Manned space flight.
Astronauts > Death.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2016 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon,
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.