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Shattered dreams :

1496214226

9781496214225

1496206754

9781496206756

9781496214201

9781496214218

Shattered dreams :

[Book]

the lost and canceled space missions /

Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.

Lincoln :

University of Nebraska Press,

[2019]

1 online resource

Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight

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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"'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"--

JSTOR

22573/ctvczgmt3

Shattered dreams.

9781496206756

Astronauts, Biography.

Manned space flight-- History.

Astronauts.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Adventurers & Explorers.

Exploration of outer space.

Manned space flight.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Engineering (General)

Outer space, Exploration, History.

Outer space.

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BIO-- 023000

HIS-- 037000

TEC-- 009000

Burgess, Colin,1947-

Thomas, Don,1955-

20200823035319.0

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