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    Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
    Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
    Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
    Audiobook5 hours

    Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time

    Written by Jeffrey Kluger

    Narrated by L.J. Ganser

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    About this audiobook

    Twelve thrilling and terrifying space-mission failures, told by the bestselling author of Apollo 13! There are so many amazing, daring, and exciting missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. In this collection, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jeffrey Kluger recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the misses. With stories of missions run by both Americans and Russians during the height of the space race, complete with photos of the people and machines behind them, this book delves into the mishaps and the tragedies, small and large, that led humankind to the moon and beyond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781980025092
    Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
    Author

    Jeffrey Kluger

    JEFFREY KLUGER is a senior writer at Time and the author of several books. He and his wife, Alejandra, live in New York.

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      Time magazine science editor Kluger recounts 12 of the "most dangerous space missions of all time." Some of the stories are quite funny, others are predictably heart-breaking; all are suspenseful. The author manages to make complex scientific concepts understandable even to this humanities-educated reader. The book ends on an upbeat, noting that risk and sacrifice are a part of the scientific method and that outer space is a hostile, yet beautifully exciting, place. This is narrative nonfiction at its finest.