Jay Chladek

Outposts on the Frontier

A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jay Chladek¿is a spaceflight historian and a regular contributor to the online forum collectSPACE.¿Clayton C. Anderson retired in 2013 after a thirty-year career with NASA and two missions to the International Space Station. He is the author of The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut (Nebraska, 2015). ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 935g
• ISBN-13: 9780803222922
• ISBN-10: 0803222920
• Artikelnr.: 46968633

Autorenporträt

Jay Chladek is a spaceflight historian and a regular contributor to the online forum collectSPACE. Clayton C. Anderson retired in 2013 after a thirty-year career with NASA and two missions to the International Space Station. He is the author of The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut (Nebraska, 2015).  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Humble Beginnings
2. Chelomei and Almaz
3. Salyut
4. The Apollo Applications Project
5. The Rocky Road to Salyut Success
6. On-Orbit Diplomacy
7. Salyut Endurance!
8. European Participation
9. Soviet Space Station Mir
10. The Odd Couple
11. The International Space Station
12. Columbia
13. Construction Resumes
14. Final Construction
Epilogue
Sources
Index