Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations: Early Docking Technologies from Concept to Implementation

✍ Scribed by David J. Shayler (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 264
Series: Springer Praxis Books
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
The Space Shuttle and the Space Station....Pages 1-9
Shuttle and Salyut: A Lost Opportunity....Pages 10-35
The Price of Freedom....Pages 36-53
Putting it All Together....Pages 54-81
The Human Element....Pages 82-105
Getting There....Pages 106-135
Shuttle-Mir 1994–1998....Pages 136-151
The Docked Phase....Pages 152-168
Crew Transfers and Loadmasters....Pages 169-191
Getting Back....Pages 192-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-245

✦ Subjects

Popular Science in Technology;Aerospace Technology and Astronautics;Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics);Engineering Design;Russian, Soviet, and East European History

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