The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disaster

In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission

control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital,

orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8''s

first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the

''dark side'' of the Moon to the series of cliff-hanger crises

aboard space station Mir, they include moments of

extraordinary heroic achievement as well as e...