Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-387-73977-9
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This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in March 2001, providing the definitive account of the Mir Space Station. The book reviews the origins of the Soviet space station programme, in particular the highly successful Salyuts 6 and 7, describes Mir’s structure, environment, power supply and maneuvering systems, and provides a comprehensive account of how it was assembled and how it operated in orbit.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Astrophysics, manned spaceflight, russian space station, space exploration books, space technology books