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Creating the International Space Station

2002; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 40; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.40-0889

1943-5975

David M. Harland, John Catchpole,

Space Exploration and Technology

List of illustrations.- List of tables.- Foreword.- Author's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Apollo Applications.- The world's first space station.- Skylab.- NASA makes plans.- Success with Salyut.- Reagan's go-ahead.- Salyut 7's jinx.- Space Station Freedom.- Mir.- An International Space Station.- Shuttle-Mir.- Building hardware.- Orbital assembley.- Postscript.- Acronyms.- Appendix 1 Launch Vehicles.- Appendix 2 ISS hardware.- Index.