Creating the International Space Station

David M. Harland and John E. Catchpole

"The greatest engineering project in the history of mankind"

Now, for the first time, here is a comprehensive and highly readable account of the creation of the International Space Station. Beginning with a review of the operations that led up to the construction of the ISS ­ Skylab, Salyut, Mir and the Shuttle ­ the authors then describe the collaboration between the great space nations that led to the design and building of the ISS. A flight-by-flight description of its orbital assembly conveys the magnitude of the task. Finally, there is a look ahead to the future of the ISS and the possibility of a dream coming true ­ colonies in space.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
Authors' preface
Acknowledgements


1. Apollo Applications
2. The world's first space station
3. Skylab
4. NASA's next logical step
5. Success with Salyut
6. Reagan's go-ahead
7. Salyut 7's jinx
8. `Space Station Freedom'
9. Mir
10. An International Space Station
11. Shuttle-Mir
12. Building hardware
13. Orbital assembly

Postscript
Acronyms
Appendix 1: Launch vehicles
Appendix 2: ISS hardware
Index

Extent: 416 pages
Binding: paperback
Publication Date: February 2002
ISBN: 978-1-85233-202-0

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