Wikipedia: List of Fictional Astronauts

impressive list
i hope it become not victim of the "delete" fraction at Wikipedia
my list of Fictional Gemini Apollo Mission was victim by them, declare "Delete Candidate" :mad:
 
Michel Van said:
impressive list
i hope it become not victim of the "delete" fraction at Wikipedia
my list of Fictional Gemini Apollo Mission was victim by them, declare "Delete Candidate" :mad:
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I don't think so, unlike a lot of lists, since I became involved with it I made a major effort to include the details of where I found the information. I've found the hunt for additional suitable books/stories has become quite enjoyable, though some of the stuff I've read has been absolute drek...
 
Do the "astronauts" in Alastair Reynolds' Pushing Ice count? It'd probably classify as "near future", set initially in 2057.

Fun list, now I have to go raid Amazon for some of the books I haven't heard of ;D
 
SOC said:
Do the "astronauts" in Alastair Reynolds' Pushing Ice count? It'd probably classify as "near future", set initially in 2057.

Fun list, now I have to go raid Amazon for some of the books I haven't heard of ;D
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Good luck with the Amazon hunt, as for Pushing Ice, as an established commercial crew they fall outside the lists criteria.
 
I've made a small update to the list in the form of a fictional multi-national shuttle crew mentioned in one of technothrillers Martin Caidin wrote for Baen in the mid-80's ('Zoboa', 1986).

If anyone is interested the next week or so should see a few more books added to the list.

Now, can anyone tell me the effects radius for a 400kt nuclear bomb....?
 
Nick said:
Nice Work!

May I also suggest the Kinsman series by Ben Bova? He has also written other space books that are very readable.
Stephen Baxter is also a good writer. Voyage is one and there's a few short stories of his online that deserve reading, especially Prospero One....

http://homepage.mac.com/sjbradshaw/baxterium/bax_sample.html
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YMMV of course, but I found Voyage a big disappointment. The author has an axe to grind with US space policy, and this shows in the book. Pages and pages of bitterness and political machinations, and very little about the actual Mars trip this book is supposed to be about.
 
Hobbes said:
The author has an axe to grind with US space policy, and this shows in the book. Pages and pages of bitterness and political machinations, and very little about the actual Mars trip this book is supposed to be about.
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Time, by the same author, shows the same bitterness, practically verging on paranoia if not openly crossing into it.
 
You should found of interset

Back to the Moon by Travis S. Taylor & Les Johnson


Planned crew of the first Moon landing mission in the Constellation program (Orion / Altair):
Commander Bill Stetson
pilot Charles Leonard
mission specialist Anthony Chow
mission specialist Helen Menendez

crew later reduced to only Stetson and Chow when the mission, renamed Mercy I, is reassigned to rescue the four-person crew of the Chinese Harmony lunar mission, stranded on the Moon

Captain Hui Tian
Pilot Ming Feng
Engineer (and political officer) Zhi Feng
Medical officer Xu Guan

There is also a Paul Gesling who is the pilot of the Dreamscape, a private spacecraft (owned by Space Excursions) which takes five paying passengers in a lunar flyby

btw, I quite enjoyed the book
best regards,
Carmine
 
Thanks,

I have a backlog of various techno-thrillers, two end of the world novels including one apocalyptic Global Warming scenario from the mid-80s (Blamed on environmentalists opposition to nuclear power interestingly enough.) and one small add-on that went up a few weeks back, in the form of a 'running gag' from an otherwise naval technothriller called "Silent Warriors".
 
Graham1973 said:
Thanks,

I have a backlog of various techno-thrillers, two end of the world novels including one apocalyptic Global Warming scenario from the mid-80s (Blamed on environmentalists opposition to nuclear power interestingly enough.) and one small add-on that went up a few weeks back, in the form of a 'running gag' from an otherwise naval technothriller called "Silent Warriors".
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Correction Alert! Correction Alert! (Be A-LERT the world needs more LERTS!) :)

Entry error found:
Dan Prescott, Lt. "First Man Into Space" (1959), film, Y-13 spaceplane, Near Future.
"Air Force Space Command pilot flies plane into space, return as monster"

Bolded portion of entery is in error. Pilot was Lt. Dan Presscott USN (Navy) as the Y series spaceplane program was a NAVY project. (Hence "Commander" Charles "Chuck" Prescott rather than Major Presscott. In the Air Force a "Captain" (both mens Commanding Officer) would be only a single rank above the "LT" rather than at least three. (LT, Lt Commander, Commander, Captain, etc) The wikipedia entry on "First Man Into Space" is also in error here :) )

Just thought I'd point that out :)

Randy
 
RanulfC, thanks for the correction, if you wish to go ahead, register with Wikipedia and you can make the edits yourself, just be aware you will need to provide sources, otherwise I'll tackle them at some point in the near future. Added one of the books from my backlist of obscure techno-thrillers to the list of fictional astronauts.
 
Graham1973 said:
RanulfC, thanks for the correction, if you wish to go ahead, register with Wikipedia and you can make the edits yourself, just be aware you will need to provide sources, otherwise I'll tackle them at some point in the near future. Added one of the books from my backlist of obscure techno-thrillers to the list of fictional astronauts.
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I think I'm registered with wiki someplace, (I'm on at least one wiki page out there :) The problem is going to be "source" since most movie databases seem to copy-past IMDB. I happened to have watched to the movie the last week which is how I knew the AF reference was wrong :)

But when I went and looked at the description block again it was word for word the IMDB description.

Randy
 
RanulfC said:
Graham1973 said:
RanulfC, thanks for the correction, if you wish to go ahead, register with Wikipedia and you can make the edits yourself, just be aware you will need to provide sources, otherwise I'll tackle them at some point in the near future. Added one of the books from my backlist of obscure techno-thrillers to the list of fictional astronauts.
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I think I'm registered with wiki someplace, (I'm on at least one wiki page out there :) The problem is going to be "source" since most movie databases seem to copy-past IMDB. I happened to have watched to the movie the last week which is how I knew the AF reference was wrong :)

But when I went and looked at the description block again it was word for word the IMDB description.

Randy
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That could cause you a problem. There is a film that I removed from the list (It's called 'Memorial Day'. Utter rubbish, only highlight an uncredited appearence by Martin Sheens brother...) But the plot on IMBD has no resemblence to the actual plot of the film, which means that the "Its not on the Internet, thus untrue." 'rule' applies. It's one of the reasons I stopped doing film/TV and focussed on books/short stories. Speaking of which another of the 'backlist books' just got added.
 
Another Wikipedia user (Gildir) has added an interesting mix of books and films to the list. In addition I've added an early AJ Quinnell thriller to the list and may spark a controversy as my copy was printed a year before Wikipedia said it was...!
 

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