Fallen astronauts
Subtitle: heroes who died reaching for the moon
By: Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan with Bert Vis ; foreword by Eugene A. Cernan
Contributors: Doolan, Kate, 1962-; Vis, Bert
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight; Outward odyssey
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780803285095
Subjects: Death; Space flight to the moon; Biography; Manned space flight; Astronauts; History
Description: Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A routine training flight / Capt. Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF; title: Gemini twins / Elliot McKay See Jr., Capt. Charles Arthur Bassett II, USAF; title: Countdown to disaster / Lt. Col. Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF,  Lt. Col. Edward Higgins White II, USAF, Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN; title: By the light of a Soviet moon / Russia's cosmonauts; title: A lonely stretch of road / Maj. Edward Galen Givens Jr., USAF; title: Mayday, mayday! / Maj. Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC; title: Epilogue.