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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Edizione: | Revised edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 629.450092/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Astronauts - United States |
| Astronauts - Soviet Union | |
| Space flight to the moon - History | |
| Manned space flight | |
| Astronauts - Death | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DoolanKate <1962-> |
| VisBert | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fallen astronauts |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-8597-3 |
| 0-8032-8599-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828186303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight