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Chargement... Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)par Jay Chladek
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. As it stands, this is probably the best study of the topic at hand, and will probably be the best available study into the foreseeable future. For me, once one gets past how Werner von Braun had the initial concept of the space station as a jumping-off point for interplanetary exploration, I found the very early origins of technical development to be the most interesting portions of the book. This means examining the USAF's "Manned Orbital Laboratory" program, and the parallel Soviet "Almaz" project, which both mostly aimed at getting a sustained strategic reconnaissance capacity into space. From there, Chladek examines how the post-Apollo period saw the respective American and Soviet station station programs (Skylab and Salyut/Mir) conceptually merged into the International Space Station, which now exists as a monument to the brief period of concord following 1989. This book is recent enough that Chladek can end on the note of how conflict over Ukraine makes another project such as the ISS unlikely in the extreme. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. He 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. This is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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