The International Space Station
Building for the Future
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Beschreibung
A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis, January 2002) by David Harland and John Catchpole. This volume details for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 through to 2008, when it should reach American “Core Complete”.
Covers in great detail for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 to 2008 Includes the recent delivery and installation of the final piece of U.S. hardware, Node-2, and all European and Japanese hardware Explains the impact of the tragic loss of Columbia on the ISS and the American space program in general Introduces the return to the Moon Ares-1 launch vehicle and Orion spacecraft as they are involved in the ISS program
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John E. Catchpole
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ISS history NASA engineering space space hardware space programs space shuttle spaceflight
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From the reviews:
“This new volume picks up the story with the launch of STS-108 which delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the station in December 2001. … given readers a good, detailed account of the missions and the construction activity, and the various problems inevitably encountered, which the crews and their support teams on Earth overcame. There are a good number of photos from the missions … . Several appendices give a comprehensive list of acronyms used … . All in all, a useful book … .” (David Maclennan, Liftoff, Issue 260, November-December, 2010)()
Details
ISBN: 9780387781440
Verlag: Springer US
Erscheinung: 24.07.2008