Who's Who in Space - Hardcover

Cassutt, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028649656 ISBN 13: 9780028649658

Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference, 1998

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Synopsis:

Profiles six hundred individuals from all nationalities who have traveled in space or trained for space flight from 1961 to the spring of 1998.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.