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The International Space Station : Building for the Future

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-0-387-78145-7

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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”.


Subject: Engineering, ISS history, NASA, engineering, Space, space hardware, Space programs, Space shuttle, Spaceflight, Aerospace Technology and, Astronautics, Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)