Shattered dreams : the lost and canceled space missions / Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.
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TextSeries: Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflightPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
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- 9781496214225
- 1496214226
- Astronauts -- Biography
- Manned space flight -- History
- Outer space -- Exploration -- History
- Astronautes -- Biographies
- Vol spatial habité -- Histoire
- Espace extra-atmosphérique -- Exploration -- Histoire
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Adventurers & Explorers
- Astronauts
- Exploration of outer space
- Manned space flight
- Outer space
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- TL789.85.A1 B866 2019eb
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"'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"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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