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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Koehler Books
ISBN-10
1646639421
ISBN-13
9781646639427
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7067516825
Product Key Features
Book Title
Baikonur Man : Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, United States / 20th Century, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"This is a fascinating story of an unusually risky scientific collaboration at a time of historic political and societal change. Those looking to understand a key moment that helped to advance our understanding of human biology and space flight should read this book." -Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Prize Recipient, Author of A Crack in Creation, and Subject of Best-Selling Biography Code Breaker "Barry Stoddard's winning new book, Baikonur Man, proceeds from the initial assertion that it is rocket science . . . but also much more: Santa Claus boxers, Armenian cognac with Russian engineers, fence building in north Idaho, rides on a Vomit Comet, grim lodgings in Kazakhstan, crystals in space . . . not to mention the collapse of the Soviet Union. For readers who want to have a little fun with their science and a little science with their fun-mission accomplished. This book is for you." -Keith Morris, Editor of the South Carolina Review, and Author of Traveler's Rest and The Dart League King "Engagingly told, this book tells the fascinating story of a scientific, personal, and political journey early in the life of a young scientist thirty years ago. Its highs and lows are great and make for a terrific and timely story." -Richard Henderson, 2017 Nobel Prize Recipient and Copley Medal Winner "Barry's book tells the story of a fascinating, high-level, and intriguing adventure. I find it hard to conceive that when so many aspects of this world seem tenuous, opposing forces can still find ways to tackle important projects for the common good." -Marianne Love, Author of Pocket Girdles, Postcards from Potato Land, and Lessons with Love "A great account of a young graduate student's unexpected adventures while participating in one of the very earliest experimental science projects carried out by American scientists and the Russian space program. Told with surprising frankness and down-to-earth humor." -Rich Roberts, 1993 Nobel Prize Recipient and Chief Scientific Officer of New England Biolabs
Synopsis
Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US government officials inside the Commerce and Defense departments. On a cold gray morning in February 1988, the company founder met with three graduate students and their professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put his plans into action. Baikonur Man, written by one of those students, recounts the subsequent five-year saga of how science, comradery, hardship, drama, and occasional lunacy led to the first American experiments and payloads to fly on Russian rockets.
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