As human beings we tend to glamorize space exploration. Astronauts and Cosmonauts are idolized,
revered and considered a cut above ordinary people.
As awe-inspiring space travel is we can never forget that
space is dangerous. Scorching heat and freezing cold, radiation, no gravity, air,
food or water, meteorites and dozens of other phenomenon can snuff out a person’s
life instantaneously.
Ever since the space race began and continued after the
fall of the U.S.S.R. man has had an insatiable appetite to know ‘what’s out
there’”
Unfortunately oftentimes it’s death.
Author Hermann Woydt and Schiffer Publishing present Disasters In Space which recounts
tragic stories from the US-Soviet Space Race.
Often graphic photos, accompanied by graphs and illustrations,
complement the detailed text describing each tragic event from launch pad disasters,
spaceship explosions, training mishaps to reentry tragedies, the book details the history of
mishaps that have plagued man’s exploration of space.