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International Space
Station Research: Accomplishments & Challenges [Hardcover]by Nicole M. Calhoun
(Editor) (March 2011)
The International Space
Station (ISS) celebrated 10 years of operations in
November 2008. Today, it is more than a human outpost in
low Earth orbit (LEO). It is also an international science
laboratory hosting state-of-the-art scientific facilities
that support fundamental and applied research across the
range of physical and biological sciences. This book
focuses on the experimental results collected to date,
including scientific publications from studies that are
based on operational data. NASA's priorities for research
aboard the ISS centre on understanding human health during
long-duration missions, research on new understandings,
methods, or applications that are relevant to life on
Earth, such as effective protocols against loss of bone
density or producing stronger metal alloys.
Salyut - The
First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy
by Grujica S. Ivanovich (April 2008)
Insight into the people involved in
the development of the Salyut space station and the crews
assigned to operate it. It describes the rotation between
the crews, analyses the decision to send the back-up crew
on Soyuz 11 and recounts the intrigues and difficult
relationships between all the personalities involved -
politicians, CKBEM managers, designers, generals and
cosmonauts. Biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts are
published for the first time in English and the longest
manned space mission of the time is described before
Grujica Ivanovich gives a unique summary of the most
tragic day in the Soviet/Russian manned space program. An
investigation into the cause of the tragic deaths of the
Soyuz 11 cosmonauts precedes a description of the
post-Salyut era, showing how the legacy of the first space
station has survived for decades.
The Story of
Manned Space Stations by Philip Baker
(April 2007)
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.
ISScapades: The Crippling of America's
Space Program: Apogee Books Space Series #59 by Donald A. Beattie (February 2007)
Covering the
International Space Station’s inception through the
launching of the first two components nearly two decades
later, this insider’s account details its demise from a
once-promising global initiative to a project rife with
controversy, dogged by delays, and filled with budget
battles. Explaining how the program struggled to survive
in an environment with political and bureaucratic
authorities that continually changed its goals, this study
analyzes NASA’s past transgressions while eyeing the
administration’s future.
Reference Guide to the International Space
Station by Gary Kitmacher (Editor) (February 2007)
Overview of the ISS's complex
configuration, design, and component systems. The sophisticated
procedures required in the Station's construction and operation
are presented in Amazing 3D Graphics generated by NASA 104 pages
of spectacularly detailed color graphics the Space Station as
you’ve never seen it before! It’s almost as good as being there.
Apogee Books Space Series #62, paperback version.
Leaving
Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for
Interplanetary Travel by
Robert Zimmerman (September 2003)
This book will be of interest
primarily to scientists and hard-core science buffs, but it
will undoubtedly be the leading book on the Russian space
station program for the foreseeable future.
Creating the International Space
Station
by David M. Harland and John E. Catchpole.
This book was the first
comprehensive review of the historical background, rationale
behind, and events leading to the construction and commissioning
of the ISS. The authors describe the orbital assembly of the ISS
on a flight-by-flight basis, listing all the experiments planned
in the various laboratory modules and explain their objectives.
The
International Space Station (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science) by True Kelley (Illustrator), Franklyn
Mansfield Branley (For ages 4-8)
Branley writes with authority
about the present and the future of the ISS. The book begins
with an introduction by Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut. The
facts, including a history and background of the station and
descriptions of life in space, are presented in a clear,
easy-to-read manner.
Space Stations: Base
Camps to the Stars by Roger D. Launius (June 2003)
Fully illustrated with rare and
evocative imagery From winged rocket ships, to the giant
rotating wheels of Wernher von Braun and 2001: A Space Odyssey,
to the epic, controversy-wracked sagas of Mir and the
International Space Station.
Living in Space: From Science
Fiction to the International Space Station
by Giovanni
Caprara
The author book covers
history from the theoretical work of Hermann Noordung in the
1920s to the first launchings of modules for the ISS. It also
presents fictional space stations, including those in the movies
2001, Star Wars, and Aliens; the classic "wheel" proposed by
Wernher von Braun; and so on.
The Continuing Story of the
International Space Station
by Peter Bond
Describes
the development and evolution of space stations, with particular
emphasis on the International Space Station, beginning with the
revolution that began in 1970, when Salyut 1, the world's first
space station was sent into orbit by the Soviet Union.
While the assembled model includes 320 separate
parts, an additional 316 parts will be added to produce a high fidelity,
accurate, museum quality replica of the International Space Station.
by Nicole M. Calhoun
(Editor) (March 2011)
