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  title info:
    title: Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations
    sub title: Early Docking Technologies from Concept to Implementation
  name:
    name part: Shayler, David J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 248 p. 122 illus., 107 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit? As a means of transporting goods, the shuttle could help supply the parts to the station. But how would the two entitles be physically linked? Docking technologies had to constantly evolve as the designs of the early space stations changed. It was hoped the shuttle would make missions to the Russian Salyut and American Skylab stations, but these were postponed until the Mir station became available, while plans for getting a new U. S. space station underway were stalled. In Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations, the author delves into the rich history of the Space Shuttle and its connection to these early space stations, culminating in the nine missions to dock the shuttle to Mir. By 1998, after nearly three decades of planning and operations, shuttle missions to Mir had resulted in: • A proven system to link up the space shuttle to a space station • Equipment and hands-on experience in handling tons of materials • An infrastructure to support space station assembly and resupply Each of these played a pivotal role in developing the skills and procedures crucial to the creation of the later, much larger and far more complex International Space Station, as described in the companion volume Assembling and Supplying the ISS: The Space Shuttle Fulfills Its Mission.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The Space Shuttle and the Space Station -- Chapter 2 Shuttle and Salyut: A Lost Opportunity -- Chapter 3 The Price of Freedom -- Chapter 4 Putting It All Together -- Chapter 5 The Human Element -- Chapter 6 Getting There -- Chapter 7 Shuttle-Mir 1994-1998 -- Chapter 8 The Docked Phase -- Chapter 9 Crew Transfers and Loadmasters -- Chapter 10 Getting Back -- Closing Comments -- Afterword -- Abbreviations -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
  note: by David J. Shayler.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Russia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Europe, Eastern
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Technology
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Technology
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  subject:
    topic: Russian, Soviet, and East European History
  classification: T-TX
  classification: 600
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783319497693
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49769-3
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    record creation date: 170627
    record change date: 20170628022234.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-49769-3