John Strausbaugh, The Wrong Stuff

John Strausbaugh, The Wrong Stuff

John Strausbaugh, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (New York: Public Affairs, 2024). Reviewed by Usman Haider John Strausbaugh is an American writer, and columnist, who also worked for The New York Times. His latest book, ‘The Wrong Stuff’ is based on the history of the nascent Soviet space programme. It covers a 25-year period of the Soviet space programme, beginning in the 1950s and continuing through 1975. It a…