Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Eugene a. Cernan (Foreword by)Series:Outward Odyssey: A People's History of SpaceflightPublish date:2016-05-01Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803285095ISBN-10:803285094UPC:9780803285095Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Historical, History, Aeronautics & AstronauticsSize:9.30 x 6.04 x 1.32 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SCJPFZAMS2
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
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...
Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803285095ISBN-10:803285094UPC:9780803285095Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Historical, History, Aeronautics & AstronauticsSize:9.30 x 6.04 x 1.32 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SCJPFZAMS2
Colin Burgess is the author or editor of several books on spaceflight, including Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975 (Nebraska, 2010) and Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the "Challenger" Legacy (Nebraska, 2000). Kate Doolan is a longtime space researcher and writer. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS space program. Capt....
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