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  • af Colin Burgess
    782,95 kr.

    This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407389912 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407389929 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860545187 (Volume set).

  • af Colin Burgess
    761,95 kr.

    Enclosures and Defences in the Neolithic of Western Europe (Volume II) 9781407389929 edited by Colin Burgess, Peter Topping, Claude Mordant and Margaret Maddison is part of a two volume set. ISBN 9781407389912 (Volume I); ISBN 9780860545187 (The two volume set).

  • af Colin Burgess
    1.353,95 kr.

  • af Colin Burgess
    248,95 kr.

  • - A History of Human Space Exploration
    af Colin Burgess
    246,95 kr.

    A thrilling, beautifully illustrated account of human space exploration, from the space race of the 1950s and '60s to the present day.

  • - Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy
    af Colin Burgess
    232,95 kr.

    Christa McAuliffe's name is entrenched in American history as the teacher who died when the Challenger exploded in January 1986. This biography in words and pictures explores and celebrates Christa's life and legacy and suggests that her goals of involving and educating children are being fulfilled.

  • - Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
    af Colin Burgess
    232,95 kr.

    Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

  • - The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
    af Colin Burgess
    298,95 kr.

    Delves into the personal stories and recollections of 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.

  • - L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and the Final Mercury Mission
    af Colin Burgess
    338,95 kr.

    This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone.

  • - Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition
    af Colin Burgess
    366,95 kr.

    Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called "The Fallen Astronaut". By telling the stories of the sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book conveys the human cost of the space race.

  • - The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program
    af Colin Burgess
    378,95 kr.

    This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space.

  • - The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
    af Colin Burgess
    338,95 kr.

    Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments.

  • - The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter
    af Colin Burgess
    362,95 kr.

  • - The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.
    af Colin Burgess
    482,95 kr.

  • - The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom
    af Colin Burgess
    428,95 kr.

    That day NASA not only lost a spacecraft but came perilously close to losing one of its Mercury astronauts, a decorated Korean fighter pilot from Indiana who might one day have soared to the highest goal of them all, as the first person to set foot on the Moon.

  • - The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
    af Colin Burgess
    428,95 kr.

    This book details the almost forgotten story of the first manned U. S. spaceflight, Freedom 7, flown by Cdr. Alan Shepard, Jr., for NASA. It examines the Mercury program and Shepard's flight in the context of the space race with the former USSR.

  • - Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts
    af Colin Burgess
    428,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Search for America's First Astronauts
    af Colin Burgess
    548,95 kr.

    All of the candidates were among the nation's elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. some were test pilots on top secret and sophisticated aviation projects, while others were fleet admirals, prisoners of war, and proposed pilots for spaceflight programs such as the Dyna-Soar (X-20).

  • - Their Lives and Legacies
    af Colin Burgess & Rex Hall
    373,95 kr.

    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.

  • - From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle
    af Chris Dubbs & Colin Burgess
    443,95 kr.

    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.

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