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National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried)

" --Jeff Smith

is in a world all his own

The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned SS_Gift_Guide flowers have only shriveled atA 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 the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following that seemed to achieve the