The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation by Adam Steltzner

The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation by Adam Steltzner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Space, the final frontier doesn't get explored by itself, it takes people....

Steltzner tells a detailed story, beginning with an unlikely start as a part-time musician who catches a glimpse of the sky at night, signs up for a community college class in astronomy..... and winds up an engineer with a PhD working on spaceships. There's a lot of detail - in some ways a bit too much, but I appreciated the chance to follow along with one of the explorers who is helping take us to the stars.

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Dreadnought by Michael Wallace

Dreadnought by Michael Wallace
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Adventure, treachery, disaster and hope.

Enjoyable continuation of Captain Drake's travails. Can he rescue his parents? Save Albion? The twists and turns are satisfying, and unpredictable. I continue to appreciate how Wallace cherry picks aspects of high seas adventures (pirates!) and history (the triangle trade, colonies and a kingdom) but weave a new story that doesn't repeat history.

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