The wrong stuff how the Soviet space program crashed and burned
"A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science. In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. B...
| Main Author: | Strausbaugh, John (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Three stooges in space
- The power couple
- A flea-bitten canaveral
- Sputnik, Flopnik, and your little dog, too
- Khrushchev's charm offensive
- The comrade who fell to Earth
- Shee-ut
- The Cosmonette
- Space ghosts
- Clown cars in space
- Not not knocking on Heaven's door
- This Devil ship!
- Red man falling
- Hello, Goodbye.