Colin Burgess is a recognised historian in the field of space literature and has carried out extensive research on the history of animal space flights over many years. Chris Dubbs also carried out comprehensive research on Soviet animal flights. He was selected by the New Mexico Museum of Space History to serve as Guest Curator for their upcoming exhibit on the Soviet space dogs.
25 Ebooks by Colin Burgess
Colin Burgess & Chris Dubbs: Animals in Space
Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian spa …
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€53.49
Colin Burgess: Selecting the Mercury Seven
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 finalists for the seven …
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€58.84
Colin Burgess: Moon Bound
Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA’s activities for the following two decades. “Moon …
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€48.14
Colin Burgess: Behind Palace Doors – My Service as the Queen Mother’s Equerry
She was described as the most dangerous woman in Europe by Adolf Hitler; Noel Coward said people who spent any time with her were always reduced to ‘gibbering worshippers’; she adored Margaret …
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€6.49
Colin Burgess: Freedom 7
Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the e …
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€48.14
Colin Burgess: Liberty Bell 7
NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable …
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€48.14
Colin Burgess: Friendship 7
In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers we …
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€39.58
Colin Burgess: Aurora 7
T O A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and c …
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€39.58
Colin Burgess & Bert Vis: Interkosmos
This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study an …
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€48.14
Colin Burgess: Sigma 7
Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which&#x …
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€42.79
Colin Burgess: Faith 7
This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his …
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€42.79
David J. Shayler & Colin Burgess: The Last of NASA’s Original Pilot Astronauts
Resulting from the authors’ deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intriguing and untold stories behind the selection process are revealed in the book. The often extraordinar …
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€53.49
Colin Burgess & Jack Champ: Diggers of Colditz
Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘;escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, …
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€14.50
Colin Burgess & Kate Doolan: Fallen Astronauts
Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The …
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€39.74
Colin Burgess: Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal …
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€35.06
Colin Burgess: Australia’s Greatest Escapes
Australias greatest escape stories from two world wars Australia’s Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience escape. Here is all …
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€15.25
David J. Shayler & Colin Burgess: NASA’s First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA’s Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shu …
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€37.44
Colin Burgess: Australia’s Dambusters
A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II. It was the evening of 16 May 1943. Nineteen modified …
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€14.40
Colin Burgess: Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal …
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€34.89
Colin Burgess: Footprints in the Dust
Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo …
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€39.98
Shayler David & Colin Burgess: NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts
Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of expanding the role of astronauts to conduct science on future space missions led to NASA’s conclusion …
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€48.14
Colin Burgess: Destination Buchenwald
The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. …
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€17.60
Colin Burgess & Rex Hall: The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
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 space explorers from th …
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€42.79
Colin Burgess: Sisters in Captivity
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in …
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€14.18
