While the Soviet Union collapsed beneath them, two cosmonauts trapped in orbit watched their country dissolve through radio transmissions and secondhand news. The mission that launched under one ...
When a Soviet spy satellite with a live reactor broke apart over the Canadian Arctic, thousands of radioactive fragments ...
NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...
pt. I. Zero-gravity capitalists : 1988-1990. Knocking on the Soviet's door ; Perestroika in orbit ; Tricking state and NASA ; The world turns upside down ; The Mir really exists ; Aren't two routes ...