The International Space Station

Building for the Future
Buch | Softcover
389 Seiten
2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-78144-0 (ISBN)

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The International Space Station - John E. Catchpole
37,44 inkl. MwSt
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
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
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