Who's Who in Space
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Who's Who in Space
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Astronautics & Space Flight
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780028649658
- ISBN-10
- 0028649656
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ISBN: 0028649656
Author: Cassutt, Michael
Condition: New
Though not indicated in the title, this biographical reference is in its third edition; the subtitle has changed with each one ( ...The First 25 Years , G.K. Hall & Co., 1987; ...The International Space Year Edition , Macmillan, 1993). The new edition gives updated biographical information for people of every nationality who traveled in space from spring 1961 (Yuri Gagarin) to spring 1998, along with hundreds of others who underwent training to prepare for space flight a total of some 600 biographies of about 200 to 500 words, each with a small portrait b&w photo. The volume includes essays on NASA astronauts, Russian cosmonauts, and Buran test-pilot cosmonauts; color depictions of NASA mission crew patches; and numerous appendices itemizing information connected with flight duration, missions and crews, journalist-in-space candidates and teacher-in-space candidates, and the world EVA log. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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