The International Space Station

Building for the Future
2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-78144-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 389 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 709 g

Reihe: Space Exploration

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”.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catchpole, John E.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Astronautik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Luftfahrtindustrie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Raumfahrt
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Luftverkehr
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.