The Story Of Space Station Mir

Author : David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387739777
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Space Station Mir written by David M. Harland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Details how a succession of Salyut space stations led to the development of Mir. * Depicts Mir’s assembly piece by piece, in space, between 1982 and 1996. * Describes how Mir became an international research laboratory. * Advises how Mir technology went on to form the ‘core modules’ of the ISS. * The definitive account of Mir throughout its life through to de-orbiting in March 2001.

Author : Jerry M. Linenger
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071378628
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR written by Jerry M. Linenger and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engrossing report.”—Booklist “Vividly captures the challenges and privations [Dr. Linenger] endured both before and during his flight.”—Library Journal Nothing on earth compares to Off the Planet—Dr. Jerry Linenger’s dramatic account of space exploration turned survival mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian space station Mir. Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission. In his remarkable narrative, Linenger chronicles power outages that left the crew in complete darkness, tumbling out of control; chemical leaks and near collisions that threatened to rupture Mir’s hull; and most terrifying of all—a raging fire that almost destroyed the space station and the lives of its entire crew.

Author : David M. Harland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The MIR Space Station written by David M. Harland and published by . This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development and operation of the Mir Space Station over the last ten years, focusing on the engineering technology aspects of constructing and operating an orbital complex designed to be occupied by humans for long periods of time.

Author : Philip Baker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387684883
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Manned Space Stations written by Philip Baker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the history of manned space stations in a logical, chronological order. It tells the story of the two major space powers starting out on their very separate programs, but slowly coming together. It describes rarely mentioned development programs, most of which never flew, including the US Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Soviet Almaz station, and the Soviet Polyus battlestation. The Mir space station was one of the greatest human achievements in modern history, and a thorough telling of its story is essential to this book. This book is the first of its kind to tell the whole story of the manned space stations from the USA and Russia.

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060932695
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragonfly written by Bryan Burrough and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a behind-the-scenes account of NASA's ambitious and sometimes tumultuous involvement with Russia's problem-plagued Mir space station over three years.

Author : David S. F. Portree
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mir Hardware Heritage written by David S. F. Portree and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heritage of the major Mir complex hardware elements is described. These elements include Soyuz-TM and Progress-M ; the Kvant, Kvant 2, and Kristall modules ; and the Mir base block. Configuration changes and major mission events of Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and Mir multiport space stations are described in detail for the period 1977-1994. A comparative chronology of U.S. and Soviet/Russian manned spaceflight is also given for that period. The 68 illustrations include comparative scale drawings of U.S. and Russian spacecraft as well as sequential drawings depicting missions and mission events.

Author : Grujica S. Ivanovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387739734
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salyut - The First Space Station written by Grujica S. Ivanovich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the crews, dramatic flights and tragedy of Soyuz 11. Biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts are published for the first time in English. The book relates discussions between the key personnel, and investigates the causes of the tragedy. The book ends with memories of all those affected by the DOS program and the tragedy of Soyuz 11 and looks forward to a continuation of the historic mission of Salyut.

Author : Ben Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461432782
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partnership in Space written by Ben Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 12, 2011 was the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis has produced a mini-series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century. "Partners in Space" focuses on the early to late 1990s, a time in the post-Soviet era when relations between East and West steadily - though not without difficulty - thawed and the foundations of real harmony and genuine co-operation were laid for the first time with Shuttle-Mir and the International Space Station. This book explores the events which preceded that new ear, including the political demise of Space Station Freedom and the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union on a once-proud human space program. It traces the history of "the Partnership" through the often traumatic times of Shuttle-Mir and closes on the eve of the launch of Zarya, the first component of today's International Space Station.

Author : Shannon Lucid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578671093
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tumbleweed written by Shannon Lucid and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 Shannon Lucid, an American astronaut, spent six months, living and working on the Russian space station Mir Tumbleweed tells the fascinating story of preparing for this flight by living and training for a year in Star City, Russia, home of the Russian Cosmonauts. She launched on the space shuttle Discovery, February 22, 1996, to join the Russian Mir crew. The original plan was for her to spend four months on Mir, but due to shuttle technical difficulties, her stay was extended to six months. During this time, she participated in the arrival and activation of Priroda, the new module that contained the US science experiments, and then carried out the US science program. During her stay on Mir, two Russian supply vehicles, Progresses, arrived, five spacewalks were performed, a Soyuz, carrying a new Russian crew arrived and her original Russian crewmates departed. After 188 days, she returned to planet Earth on the space shuttle Atlantis.Tumbleweed provides vivid details living and working in a micro gravity environment for a long duration space flight.

Author : Gary Kitmacher
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346323
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Stations written by Gary Kitmacher and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versa Space stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space takes the reader deep into the heart of past, present, and future space stations, both real ones and those dreamed up in popular culture. This lavishly illustrated book explains the development of space stations from the earliest fictional visions through historical and current programs--including Skylab, Mir, and the International Space Station--and on to the dawning possibilities of large-scale space colonization. Engrossing narrative and striking images explore not only the spacecraft themselves but also how humans experience life aboard them, addressing everything from the development of efficient meal preparation methods to experiments in space-based botany. The book examines cutting-edge developments in government and commercial space stations, including NASA's Deep Space Habitats, the Russian Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station, and China's Tiangong program. Throughout, Space Stations also charts the fascinating depiction of space stations in popular culture, whether in the form of children's toys, comic-book spacecraft, settings in science-fiction novels, or the backdrop to TV series and Hollywood movies. Space Stations is a beautiful and captivating history of the idea and the reality of the space station from the nineteenth century to the present day.