Book description
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. But…
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Strausbaugh offers an amusing take on the craziness inside the Soviet Union's famed space program, which was both slapdish and astonishingly successful---when it wasn't accidentally killing people.
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