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Author Burgess, Colin, 1947-

Title Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon / Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan, with Bert Vis ; with a foreword by Eugene A. Cernan
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents A routine training flight: Captain Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF -- Gemini twins: Elliot McKay See Jr. and Captain Charles Arthur Bassett II, USAF -- Countdown to disaster: Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF; Lieutenant Colonel Edward Higgins White II, USAF; and Lieutenant Commander Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN -- By the light of a Soviet moon: Russia's cosmonauts -- A lonely stretch of road: Major Edward Galen Givens Jr., USAF -- "Mayday, mayday!": Major Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index
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Subject Astronauts -- United States -- Biography
Astronauts -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Space flight to the moon -- History
Astronauts -- Death
Astronauts
Space flight to the moon
Soviet Union
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Doolan, Kate, 1962-
Vis, Bert
LC no. 2003042662
ISBN 0803202415
9780803202412