Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon /
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Author / Creator: | Burgess, Colin, 1947- |
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Edition: | Revised edition. |
Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] |
Description: | xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Series: | Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight Outward odyssey. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10739356 |
Table of 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.