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UNINA9910466315603321 |
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Autore |
Burgess Colin <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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0-8032-8597-3 |
0-8032-8599-X |
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Edizione |
[Revised edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Collana |
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Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Astronauts - United States |
Astronauts - Soviet Union |
Space flight to the moon - History |
Manned space flight |
Astronauts - Death |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- |
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