Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition 9780803285095

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Автор: Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan
Название: Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780803285095
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии деятелей науки, техники и медицины

Сборники биографий

Космонавтика

ISBN-10: 0803285094
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 416
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2016
Серия: Outward odyssey: a people`s history of spaceflight
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 50 photographs
Размер: 236 x 153 x 34
Ключевые слова: Biography: historical, political & military,History: earliest times to present day, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
Подзаголовок: Heroes who died reaching for the moon, revised edition
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book enriches the saga of humankind’s greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race.

Many people are aware of the first manned Apollo mission, in which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a fire during a ground test, but few know of the other five fallen astronauts whose stories this book tells as well, including Ted Freeman and C.C. Williams, who died in the crashes of their T-38 jets; the “Gemini Twins,” Charlie Bassett and Elliot See, killed when their jet slammed into the building where their Gemini capsule was undergoing final construction; and Ed Givens, whose fatal car crash has until now been obscured by rumors. Supported by extensive interviews and archival material, the extraordinary lives and accomplishments of these and other fallen astronauts—including eight Russian cosmonauts who lost their lives during training—unfold here in intimate and compelling detail. Their stories return us to a stirring time in the history of our nation and remind us of the cost of fulfilling our dreams. This revised edition includes expanded and revised biographies and additional photographs.

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Дополнительное описание:

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Routine Training Flight
    Capt. Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF
2. Gemini Twins
    Elliot McKay See Jr.
    Capt. Charles Arthur Bassett

Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition, Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan