Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon

This work enriches the saga of mankind's greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race - by telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died reaching for the moon.

Autorentext

Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy (Nebraska 2000). Kate Doolan is a co-author of Australia Post s 1992 International Space Yearbook, Mission to Planet Earth. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS Space program. Captain Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas, and is the author of the The Last Man on the Moon.

Zusammenfassung
Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.