Book ID: CBB446727681

Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions (2019)

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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 words—and those of others close to them—how their shared ambition would go awry through personal accidents, illness, the Challenger disaster, death, or other circumstances.

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Authors & Contributors
Ness, Norman F.
Nishida, A.
Sonett, C. P.
Determann, Jörg Matthias
Alexander MacDonald
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Concepts
Space research and exploration
Space travel; space flight
Space programs
Personal narratives
Space
Popular culture
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Middle and Near East
Arctic regions
Americas
Institutions
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Space Force (USSF)
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
United States. Department of Defense
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Air Force (USAF)
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