en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:21:26 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7467716731 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:21:26 -0700 /review/show/7467716731 Craigd gave 1 star to The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (Hardcover) by John Strausbaugh
In a chapter about the first female to space the author drones on about how it was just a publicity stunt and how much the Soviet PR team pumped up facts while NASA was full of “Ralph Crampton� types who discounted women. And at the end of the chapter I can’t tell if he is just channeling Ralph Crampton when he dismisses Wally Funk’s flight to space in 2021 or is he channeling the Soviet PR team when He makes the claim that she did not actually achieve space flight because her flight peaked at �86,000 km� well below the 100,000 km well short of the international accepted definition of space. Well if the author or his publisher had bothered to do basic fact checking he would they would find that Wally Funk and the rest of the passengers on NS-16 at a peak apogee of 107 km well above the required international definition of space. One, if they were so inclined, could guess that he was playing fast and loose with his facts and simply used the Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22’s peak apogee of 86 km. Now did he do this because like so many Soviet PR people before him, he used the “better� story, was he channeling Ralph Crampton and just not giving credit to a woman, or was it a simple error he made researching the book? None of these situations make him look very good; and I’d like to give him credit and say he just got confused during research or read the wrong set of notes, but this might be the worst explination because how can we trust anything in the book if he can’t even get contemporary facts correct. ]]> Review7361321057 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:54:19 -0800 /review/show/7361321057 Craigd gave 1 star to Piranese: The Prison Planet (Hardcover) by Milo Manara
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