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"Gemini Twins". Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 46– 116. ISBN 978-0-8032-8509-5. LCCN 2015042585. Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Don (2000). The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space.
The first African-American astronaut, selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, was killed when his F-104 Starfighter jet crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, while practicing a series of high speed, quick descent landings with Major Harvey Royer as pilot in command. Both crewmen ejected; Royer survived with ...
The Gemini astronauts were sixteen pilots who flew in Project Gemini, NASA's second human spaceflight program, between projects Mercury and Apollo. Carrying two astronauts at a time, a senior command pilot and a junior pilot, the Gemini spacecraft was used for ten crewed missions. Four of the sixteen astronauts flew twice.
The ex-wife of a flight attendant on board a commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter Wednesday outside Washington D.C. has confirmed her ex-husband, Ian Epstein, was killed in the ...
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general ...
Katharine McPhee Foster is mourning flight attendant Ian Epstein, who died in the recent American Airlines plane crash. “I remember this man on one of our many flights,” McPhee Foster, 40 ...
Cernan died in a hospital in Houston on January 16, 2017, at the age of 82. [28] His funeral was held at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. [29] He was buried with full military honors at Texas State Cemetery, the first astronaut to be buried there, in a private service on January 25, 2017. [30] [31]
Danasia Elder, a flight attendant on American Airlines flight 5342, is being remembered by friends and family as a dedicated and loving individual. On the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 29, American ...