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Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions

English

By (author): Colin Burgess

Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time. Colin Burgess features spaceflight candidates from the United States, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, and Great Britain.

Shattered Dreams brings to new life such episodes and upheavals in spaceflight history as the saga of the three Apollo missions that were cancelled due to budgetary constraints and never flew; NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson, who died of burn injuries after her airplane crashed before she had a chance to fly into space; and a female cosmonaut who might have become the first journalist to fly in space. Another NASA astronaut was preparing to fly an Apollo mission before he was diagnosed with a disqualifying illness. There is also the amazing story of the pilot who could have bailed out of his damaged aircraft but held off while heroically avoiding a populated area and later applied to NASA to fulfill his cherished dream of becoming an astronaut despite having lost both legs in the accident.

These are the incredibly human stories of competitive realists fired with an unquenchable passion. Their accounts reveal in their own wordsand those of others close to themhow their shared ambition would go awry through personal accidents, illness, the Challenger disaster, death, or other circumstances.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2019
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781496206756

About Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess is the author of several books on spaceflight including Faith 7: L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and the Final Mercury Mission; Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo 19691975 (Nebraska 2010); and Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy (Nebraska 2000). Don Thomas was a NASA mission specialist on missions STS-65 STS-70 STS-83 and STS-94.  

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