Dragonfly
by Bryan Burrough · first published 1998
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There's a roughly contemporary book "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough that I recall being somewhat controversial when it came out but also very carefully reported. I do recommend it still.
on “PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)” ↗If you like this, you should definitely read "Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough. It's an amazing portrait of the disintegrating immediately-ex-Soviet space program, and the disintegrating space station they were trying to keep flying.…
on “The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space” ↗Just started reading Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir [http://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-NASA-And-Crisis-Aboard/dp/08...]. It seems to be an interesting story about problems that plagued NASA and Russia in the 90s.
on “The Mir Space Station” ↗Thanks. I haven't seen this, I did read about the incident in Brian Burrough's Dragonfly.
on “Who'd be mad enough to start a 'large-scale fire' in a spaceship?” ↗> My question is did NASA learn from this and improved the scheduling for future missions? Seems they have with ISS unless I’m wrong? They have a mixed record. If you read Bryan Burrough's Dragonfly, which includes some first-hand accounts, you can see that the NASA astronauts who visited Mir had varied results in this regard but the overall pattern was that of a lax, highly understaffed effort towards…
on “The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)” ↗…Korolev, William Burrough’s This New Ocean, and other works all portray the Soviet effort in a much more realistic manner and demonstrate what a massive and serious effort it was. Even Bryan Burrough’s Dragonfly, which is highly critical of the Russians and details more than a few life-threatening misadventures aboard the Mir Space Station, does not portray the Russians as clods the way that Strausbaugh does.…
on “Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids” ↗