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.Colin Burgess Official Biography Page
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.In the Shadow of the Moon Awards Information, nebraskapress.unl.edu. Accessed 30 August 2022.
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, 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 "Footprints in the Dust" Official Publisher Site How Wickie Saved the World, 2010"How Wickie Saved the World" National Library Site Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts, 2011"Selecting the Mercury Seven" Official Publisher Site 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 Australia's Aviation Heroes: True Stories From Our Airmen At War, 2025 Sisters Under Fire:The Extraordinary Courage of Two Australian Nurses at War, 2026
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External links Into That Silent Sea Official Publisher Site In The Shadow Of The Moon Official Publisher Site 2007 AAS Emme Award finalist announcements