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Australian writer
Colin Burgess (born March 1947) is an Australian author and historian, specializing in space flight and military history. He is a former customer service manager for
Qantas Airways, and a regular contributor to the
collectSPACE online community. He lives in
New South Wales .
[1]
Two of Burgess's co-authored 2007 books,
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965 and
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969 were named as finalists for the 2007
Eugene M. Emme Award given by the
American Astronautical Society .
In the Shadow of the Moon was also named as "2009 Outstanding Academic Title" by
Choice Magazine .
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Bibliography
Aircraft , 1985
Pioneers of Flight , 1988
Prisoners of War , with
Hugh Clarke and
Russell Braddon , 1988
Laughter in the Air: Tales from the
Qantas Era , with
Max Harris , 1988
More Laughter in the Air: Tales from the Qantas Era , 1992
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Australian POW Stories , with
Hugh Clarke , 1993
Freedom or Death : Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars , 1994
Destination
Buchenwald , 1995. Revised and expanded edition published 2022
The Diggers of
Colditz : the classic Australian POW escape story now completely revised and expanded , with Jack Champ, 1997 and 2019
Australia's Dambusters: The Men and Missions of
617 Squadron , 2003, re-released in 2021
Bush Parker: An Australian Battle of Britain Pilot in Colditz , 2007,
ISBN
098032047X
Space, the New Frontier , 1987
Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia's First Man in Space,
Paul Scully-Power , 1995
Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream , 1999
Teacher In Space:
Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy , 2000, revised edition 2020
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon , with Kate Doolan, 2003. Revised expanded edition, 2016
NASA 's Scientist-Astronauts , with David Shayler, 2006
Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle , with Chris Dubbs, 2007
Into That Silent Sea : Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965 , with
Francis French , 2007
In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969 , with
Francis French , 2007
Astronomica , Ed.
Fred Watson , 2007 (contributor)
The First Soviet
Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies , with Rex Hall, 2009
Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream , 2009
Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of
Apollo , 1969–1975 , 2010
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How Wickie Saved the World , 2010
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Selecting the
Mercury Seven : The Search for America's First Astronauts , 2011
[5]
Moon Bound: Choosing and Training the Lunar Astronauts , 2012
Freedom 7 : The Historic Flight of
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , 2014
Liberty Bell 7 : The Suborbital Mercury Flight of
Virgil I. Grissom , 2014
Friendship 7 : The Epic Orbital Flight of
John H. Glenn, Jr. , 2015
Aurora 7 : The Mercury Space Flight of
M. Scott Carpenter , 2015
Interkosmos : The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program , 2015
Sigma 7 : The Six Mercury Orbits of
Walter M. Schirra, Jr. , 2016
Faith 7 :
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and the Final Mercury Mission , 2016
The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties , with David J. Shayler, 2017
Shattered Dreams: The Lost or Canceled Space Missions , 2019
NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff , 2020
Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping Tales of Wartime Bravery , 2020
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration , 2021
Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier , 2022
Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942-1945, 2023
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