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  • NASA’s First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
    Colin Burgess / David J. Shayler / David JShayler
    Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA’s Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or scientists trained as pilots had been assigned to fly on America’s spacecraft, but with the advent of the innovative winged spacecraft the do...
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    48,84 €

  • Friendship 7
    Colin Burgess
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    47,77 €

  • Moon Bound
    Colin Burgess
    Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA’s activities for the following two decades. 'Moon Bound' complements the author’s recently published work, 'Selecting the Mercury Seven' (2011), extending the story of the men who helped to launch human spaceflight and broaden the...
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  • Selecting the Mercury Seven
    Colin Burgess
    The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America’s pioneering astronauts. All of the candidates were among the nation’s elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. Most had served ...
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  • Selecting the Mercury Seven
    Colin Burgess
    The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America’s pioneering astronauts. All of the candidates were among the nation’s elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. Most had served ...
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    65,77 €

  • The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
    Colin Burgess / Rex Hall
    The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early Soviet space explorers from that group. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these 'missing' candidates will also be included for the first time in this book. It will be a detail...
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    53,30 €

  • Animals in Space
    Chris Dubbs / Colin Burgess
    This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both succ...
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    59,35 €