Shattered dreams : the lost and canceled space missions

Shattered dreams : the lost and canceled space missions / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.

"'Shattered Dreams' recounts the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future spaceflight mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, Colin, 1947- (Author)
Other Authors: Thomas, Don, 1955- (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
Subjects:
Astronauts > Biography.
Manned space flight > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Adventurers & Explorers.
Astronauts
Exploration of outer space
Manned space flight
Outer space > Exploration > History.
Outer space
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: end of a spaceflight dream
  • Losing the moon: Apollo, the abandoned missions
  • Earthbound astronaut: scientist-astronaut Duane ("Doc") Graveline
  • Born beneath the Southern Cross: NASA's Group 6 astronaut Philip K. Chapman
  • Svetlana's story: Russia's journalist-in-space program and cosmonaut-journalist Svetlana Omelchenko
  • Unfulfilled ambitions: Lt. Cdr. Stephen D. Thorne, USN
  • The greatest gesture: oceanographer Robert E. Stevenson
  • Test pilot and ex-astronaut: Group 5 astronaut Lt. Cdr. John S. Bull, USN
  • An Indonesian flag in space: payload specialist Pratiwi Sudarmono
  • Countdown to Skynet: Britain's first astronaut candidates
  • Patience, persistence, and guts: the extraordinary story of Frank K. Ellis
  • Vostok lady: pilot and parachutist Marina Popovich
  • With stars in her eyes: Group 19 mission specialist Patricia Hilliard Robertson
  • New Hampshire to the new frontier: payload specialist candidate Robert J. Wood
  • Argentina's only astronaut: Fernando ("Frank") Caldeiro.

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