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Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs - Science - 2007 - 406 pages
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 ...
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NASA's Scientist-Astronauts

Shayler David, Colin Burgess - Science - 2007 - 543 pages
This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the ...
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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies

Colin Burgess, Rex Hall - Science - 2009 - 420 pages
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 ...
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Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts

Colin Burgess - Science - 2011 - 371 pages
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 ...
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