Title:
Fallen astronauts : heroes who died reaching for the moon
Author:
Edition:
Revised edition.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780803285095
Abstract:
Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- Publisher.
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. Col. 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.
Language:
English
