Shattered Dreams : The Lost and Canceled Space Missions / / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas
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| Autore: |
Burgess Colin <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Shattered Dreams : The Lost and Canceled Space Missions / / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019] |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019 | |
| ©[2019] | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 629.450092/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Manned space flight - History |
| Astronauts | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Outer space Exploration History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ThomasDon <1955-> |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue: end of a spaceflight dream -- Losing the moon: Apollo, the abandoned missions -- Earthbound astronaut: scientist-astronaut Duane ("Doc") Graveline -- Born beneath the Southern Cross: NASA's Group 6 astronaut Philip K. Chapman -- Svetlana's story: Russia's journalist-in-space program and cosmonaut-journalist Svetlana Omelchenko -- Unfulfilled ambitions: Lt. Cdr. Stephen D. Thorne, USN -- The greatest gesture: oceanographer Robert E. Stevenson -- Test pilot and ex-astronaut: Group 5 astronaut Lt. Cdr. John S. Bull, USN -- An Indonesian flag in space: payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono -- Countdown to Skynet: Britain's first astronaut candidates -- Patience, persistence, and guts: the extraordinary story of Frank K. Ellis -- Vostok lady: pilot and parachutist Marina Popovich -- With stars in her eyes: Group 19 mission specialist Patricia Hilliard Robertson -- New Hampshire to the new frontier: payload specialist candidate Robert J. Wood -- Argentina's only astronaut: Fernando ("Frank") Caldeiro. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shattered Dreams |
| ISBN: | 1-4962-1420-X |
| 1-4962-1422-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822073303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Outward odyssey.