Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.
Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy (Nebraska 2000). Kate Doolan is a co-author of Australia Post¿s 1992 International Space Yearbook, Mission to Planet Earth. Bert Vis is a Dutch space analyst who conducts research on the Soviet/CIS Space program. Captain Eugene A. Cernan lives and works in Texas, and is the author of the The Last Man on the Moon.
