The Story of Manned Space Stations (eBook)

An Introduction

Philip Baker (Autor)

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2007 | 2007
XVIII, 170 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-68488-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book charts the history of manned space stations in a logical, chronological order. It tells the story of the two major space powers starting out on their very separate programs, but slowly coming together. It describes rarely mentioned development programs, most of which never flew, including the US Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Soviet Almaz station, and the Soviet Polyus battlestation. The Mir space station was one of the greatest human achievements in modern history, and a thorough telling of its story is essential to this book. This book is the first of its kind to tell the whole story of the manned space stations from the USA and Russia.

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Philip Baker charts the history of manned space stations from the very beginning in a logical, chronological order. He tells the story of the two major space powers starting out on their very separate programs, but slowly coming together through ASTP, Shuttle-Mir, and the ISS, and includes programs that rarely get mentioned - the US Manned Orbiting Laboratory, and the Soviet Almaz station, both military backed projects.The Mir space station was one of the greatest human achievements in modern history, and a thorough telling of its story is essential to this book. During its life it grew and evolved into a truly international outpost, with visitors from all over the world taking advantage of the only permanent space station in orbit at that time.This book will be the only one of its kind to tell the whole story of the manned space stations from both nations, from the very beginning, to the current ISS story, and to the possibilities beyond.Each chapter of this book will contain interviews with many of the primary participants, including the astronauts, cosmonauts, designers, mission controllers, doctors and managers most directly involved in the flights. The author paints a vivid picture of two competing nations slowly coming together to form an alliance that is shaky and uncertain to begin with, but grows from fierce competition into solid collaboration.

Inhalt

Contents 5
Acknowledgements 8
Figures 9
Color plates 11
Abbreviations and acronyms 12
Introduction 14
1928-1970: How it all began 16
1971: Salyut 1 - triumph and disaster 35
1970-1979: Skylab - NASA dips its toe 40
1973-1974: Salyut 2 and Salyut 3 - limited success 58
1974-1977: Salyut 4, 5, and ASTP 65
Salyut 6: Space station operations defined 73
Salyut 7 and Spacelab 80
Mir: For all mankind? 89
Freedom: The U.S. strikes back 100
Shuttle-Mir: Real co-operation 108
The International Space Station... at last 131
The future for manned space stations 148
Appendix A 158
Appendix B 165
Index 170
Color plates 176

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Space Exploration
• Reihe/Serie: Space Exploration
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Praxis Books
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Praxis Books
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 170 p. 36 illus., 24 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: Baker • Control • Design • Manned • Moon • Nation • space
• ISBN-10: 0-387-68488-3 / 0387684883
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-68488-8 / 9780387684888