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"The Serial Killer's Astronaut Daughter" (2014), short story Private space station: Future Unnamed Technical Mission Specialist learns her blological father is on Death Row. [42] Carol Elizabeth Hall, Ph.D. "A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star" (2014), novelette International Space Station: 1955 – 2000
Norman Grant (James Garner) is a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition.Other principal players include John Pope (Harry Hamlin), who, after failing to win his way to Annapolis, matriculates from a Navy recruit to a naval officer, Naval Aviator, test pilot and pioneering astronaut in the company of fellow space ...
The story begins in 1944 and covers more than 30 years in the lives of four men and their families: Dieter Kolff, a German rocket engineer who worked for the Nazis; Norman Grant, a World War II hero turned U.S. Senator from the fictional Midwestern state of Fremont; Stanley Mott, an aeronautical engineer charged with a top-secret U.S. government mission to rescue Kolff from Peenemünde; and ...
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15 , the fourth human lunar landing.
Two unnamed astronauts "Feldspar" (2017), short story NASA: Eos Future First human landing on Mars; Eos Base Camp established in mouth of Valles Marineris. Winship is injured near mouth of Maja Vallas on excursion to Chryse Planitia; Earth-based rover operator comes to her aid, guiding her to shelter near Dromore crater. [224]
Astronauts left without guidance from Houston after plague wipes out human life in United States. [73] Melville (no first name given) "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (1974), short story Unknown (Three-man spacecraft) Contemporary/near future Astronaut recovering from "mental breakdown in space." [74] [75]
The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
Countdown is a 1967 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the 1964 novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls.The film stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of an accelerated program to beat the Soviet Union.