Edition |
Revised edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (417 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
Series |
Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Summary |
Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- Publisher. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Astronauts -- United States -- Biography.
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Astronauts -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Space flight to the moon -- History.
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Manned space flight.
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Astronauts -- Death.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Doolan, Kate, 1962- author.
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Vis, Bert, author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Burgess, Colin. Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight 9780803285095 |
ISBN |
9780803285095 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780803285996 (electronic bk.) |
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