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In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, explore the many failures that made up the Space Race, paving the way for humanitys eventual success at reaching the stars.Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrongs famous words as he first set foot on the moon: one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. He made it look easy, but Americas journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the worlds first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it Kaputnik. Still, we didnt give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.The Epic Fails series by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson explores the humorous backstories behind a variety of historical discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations that didnt go as expected but succeeded nonetheless, showing that many of mankinds biggest success stories are the result of some pretty epic failures indeed.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Roaring Brook Press
