Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon /

Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Burgess, Colin, 1947- author.
Edition:	Revised edition.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight
Subject:	Astronauts -- United States -- Biography. Astronauts -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Space flight to the moon -- History. Manned space flight. Astronauts -- Death. Astronauts. Manned space flight. Space flight to the moon. Soviet Union. United States. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755371

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Doolan, Kate, 1962- author. Vis, Bert.
ISBN:	9780803285972 0803285973 9780803285989 0803285981 9780803285996 080328599X 0803285094 9780803285095 9780803285095
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. --
Other form:	Print version: Burgess, Colin, 1947- Fallen astronauts. Revised edition. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 9780803285095

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.