John Strausbaugh

Oct 19, 2024 | shepherd.com | John Strausbaugh |Jonathan Rauch |Jon Grinspan |Kevin R. Kosar

Myfavorite read in 2024…Strausbaugh offers an amusing take on the craziness inside the Soviet Union's famed space program, which was both slapdish and astonishingly successful---when it wasn't accidentally killing people. Loved Most🥇Writing🥈TeachWriting style👍Liked itPace🐕Good, steady paceWhy should I read it? 1author pickedThe Wrong Stuffas one of their favorite books, and they sharewhy you should read it. What is this book about?

Jun 19, 2024 | nypost.com | John Strausbaugh

Vostok-1, the first manned spaceship, landed empty, as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made an early exit via parachute and touched down a few kilometers away.

Jun 4, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Shane Harris |John Strausbaugh

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In the wake of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union set off on the great space race, competing to see which super power could put the first human in space and eventually land them on the Moon. As historian John Strausbaugh writes, that race should have been over before it even started.

Apr 30, 2024 | truthdig.com | John Strausbaugh

Last August, the Russians sent a probe to the moon, something they had not attempted since 1976. It crashed. “This is another indicator of how the Soviet/Russian space program has deteriorated over the years,” Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut, told Radio Free Europe.

Oct 2, 2023 | hachettebookgroup.com | John Strausbaugh

A 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 impossible.