The Twenty-first Century in Space

• Main Author: Evans, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

This final entry in the History of Human Space Exploration mini-series by Ben Evans continues with an in-depth look at the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium. Picking up where Partnership in Space left off, the story commemorating the evolution of manned space explor...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Steadily Brightening Star
• Chapter 2: Columbia and After
• Chapter 3: An International Workplace
• Chapter 4: A Tourist’s Haven
• Chapter 5: The Dragon Awakens
• Chapter 6: Epilogue – The Next Fifty Years
• Bibliography
• Index.