The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive backg...

TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. ...

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schir...

Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of...

NASA¿s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed...

This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon ...

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian C...

This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally n...

Inevitably, there are times in a nation¿s history when its hopes, fears and con¿dence in its own ...

Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second an...

Resulting from the authors¿ deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intri...

Colin Burgess is the coauthor of Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon; Into T...