*The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned*

By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was nothing new. Since so little was known about the effects that blasting off in a rocket might have on th ehuman body and brain — the g-force of acceleration, the disorientation of weightlessness, the impact […] The post *The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.