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The International Space Station

Building for the Future

John E. Catchpole (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

389 Seiten

2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-78144-0 (ISBN)

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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”.

John Catchpole is a freelance writer specialising in human spaceflight history. In addition to co-authoring Creating the International Space Station, he is also the author of Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme and has published over 150 magazine articles on the subject of human spaceflight and spaceflight history, including many in Spaceflight, a monthly magazine published by the British Interplanetary Society.

Early construction.- The ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force.- Commencing the Integrated Truss Structure.- Triumph and tragedy.- Recovery and restructuring.- Project Constellation.- Postscript.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2008
Reihe/Serie	Space Exploration
Reihe/Serie	Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo	185 Illustrations, black and white; XXIV, 389 p. 185 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-387-78144-7 / 0387781447
ISBN-13	978-0-387-78144-0 / 9780387781440
Zustand	Neuware