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Old 02-02-2018, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker View Post
Yep, I've read several different accounts of the Challenger disaster.

Currently I'm about halfway through Book 4 of Boris Chertok's seminal history of the Soviet space program, from his personal files and memories, called "Rockets and People". It's an outstanding series of books, uber-detailed (almost to the point of tediousness, if one isn't into extreme detail) but it's very revealing about the differences of how their program and ours worked.

Later! OL J R
Chertok's book is pretty fascinating. Really interesting to see the space race from the other side.
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