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- Great, you've managed to dig up a negative review. Have a biscuit. Here's 286-odd reviews that disagree with that one: https://www.amazon.com.au/Wrong-Stuff-Soviet-Program-Crashed...
- Read a very interesting book on the space race from the soviet side. One of the things that stood out was the lack of solid state transistor technology meant that they were using tube transistors in their space craft. This was one of the reasons they had problems doing spacewalks. They couldn't expose the interior of their capsules to space or the electronics would go pop. The Wrong Stuff How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John strausbaugh https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-strausbaugh/th...
