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Shattered dreams : the lost and canceled space missions /
"'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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.