Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-05
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Sturdevant, Rick W.
Article Excerpt
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. By Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan, with Bert Vis. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Photographs. References. Index. Pp. xxiii, 272. $25.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-8032-6212-4
The astronauts and cosmonauts of the 1960s aspired to venture courageously through the blackness of space and onward to the Moon. Tragically, the hand of fate cut some lives short, depriving at least sixteen-eight astronauts and eight cosmonauts--of chances to fulfill their dreams. Captains Theodore Freeman (USAF) and Charles Bassett II (USAF), Elliott...
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