The Story of Space Station Mir

• Main Author: Harland, David M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in March 2001, providing the definitive account of the Mir Space Station. The book reviews the origins of the Soviet space station programme, in particular the highly successful...

Table of Contents:

• Getting started
• Routine operations
• A step towards continuous occupancy
• A base block for modular construction
• An astrophysical laboratory
• A microgravity laboratory for hire
• Expansion or abandonment?
• Shuttle-Mir
• The final chapter
• In retrospect.