The International Space Station Building for the Future /

• Main Author: Catchpole, John E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis, January 2002) by David Harland and John Catchpole. This volume details for the first time the construction and occupation...

Table of Contents:

• Early construction
• The ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force
• Commencing the Integrated Truss Structure
• Triumph and tragedy
• Recovery and restructuring
• Project Constellation
• Postscript.