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Title: Outposts on the Frontier
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
ISBN-10: 0803222920
EAN: 9780803222922
ISBN: 9780803222922
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Description: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings.

A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev’s in rocketry.

Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind’s first outposts on the frontier of space.
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Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: Jay Chladek
Contributor: Clayton C. Anderson (Foreword by)
Genre: History
Book Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Release Year: 2017

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