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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

1 online resource (417 pages)

ISBN 9780803285996 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780803285095 (cloth : alk. paper)

Outward odyssey. A people’s history of spaceflight

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 ISBN 9780803285095

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

Stories of the eight American astronauts and eight Soviet cosmonauts who died in the race to reach the moon. -- Publisher..

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