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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 In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969 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 [2 ]
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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
Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle , with Chris Dubbs, 2007
Into That Silent Sea : Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965Francis French , 2007
In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969Francis 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 [3 ]
How Wickie Saved the World , 2010[4 ]
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.
Liberty Bell 7 : The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom
Friendship 7 : The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.
Aurora 7 : The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter
Interkosmos : The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program
Sigma 7 : The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Faith 7 : L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and the Final Mercury Mission
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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