Disaster Strikes!
The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time

Episodic by nature, this is a book for danger buffs or space buffs, chronically the times the odds caught up with spacemen, astronauts or cosmonauts. It's well written, building suspense in each chapter and giving the information to know what happened and why.......more

This is a kids' book, but it was very interesting. I didn't know about several of these incidents - like the guy who almost drowned in space!......more

This thrilling nonfiction read chronicles disasters and near-disasters of missions from the 1960s to the present. The book highlights the dangerous, challenging work of being an astronaut. Readers will be fascinated to learn about early missions that helped astronauts learn from experience, both the......more

Really a series of short stories around the theme of disaster issues on space missions was fascinating and informative. Not negative, super tragic, or morbid, Kluger shares the straightforward information surrounding both the Russian and American space programs whether it be fires or explosions, spa......more

This is a well done children's non-fiction book by Jeffrey Kluger, who has written adult non-fiction books about the U.S. space program, especially the Apollo 13 & 8 missions. Each chapter focused on a specific space disaster. He tells them in chronological order from 1961 to 2013. Some of these are......more