Colin Burgess (author)

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.^[2]

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 ^[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., 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