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Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
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Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End

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Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger

LanguageEnglish
PublisherKoehler Books
Release dateMar 28, 2023
ISBN9781646639410
Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's End
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Barry L. Stoddard

Barry Stoddard was born in Montana and has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of his life. He graduated from Whitman College and earned his doctorate from MIT. After further training at the University of California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington, where he has run a research laboratory ever since. He has authored hundreds of research studies and serves as the senior editor of a scientific journal. Among the many adventures, working with Payload Systems and the Soviet and Russian space program remains at the very top of the list. Barry lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his wife, Amy, not far from his sons and their families.

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