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BL
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851808
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| Main Entry
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Burgess, Colin,1947-
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| Title & Author
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Shattered dreams : : the lost and canceled space missions /\ Colin Burgess ; foreword by Don Thomas.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1496214226
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1496206754
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9781496206756
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9781496214201
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9781496214218
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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"--
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Astronauts, Biography.
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Manned space flight-- History.
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Astronauts.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Adventurers Explorers.
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Exploration of outer space.
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Manned space flight.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Engineering (General)
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Outer space, Exploration, History.
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Outer space.
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| Dewey Classification
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629.450092/2
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| LC Classification
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TL789.85.A1B866 2019eb
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| Added Entry
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Thomas, Don,1955-
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