Ben Evans: The Twenty-first Century in Space

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Beschreibung

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 exploration unfolds in further detail. More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin¿s pioneering journey into space, Evans extends his overview of how that momentous voyage continued through the decades which followed.
The Twenty-first Century in Space, the sixth book in the series, explores how the fledgling partnership between the United States and Russia in the 1990s gradually bore fruit and laid the groundwork for today¿s International Space Station. The narrative follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs, together with standalone missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, many of whose technical and human lessons enabled the first efforts to build the ISS in orbit. The book also looks to the future of developments in the 21st century.

Über den Autor

Ben Evans is an accomplished and experienced space writer ideally qualified to chronicle the epic story of human space exploration. This is the final entry in his "A History of Human Space Exploration" sub-series with Springer Praxis, following after Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and Sixties (2009), Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies (2010), At Home in Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties (2010), Tragedy and Triumph: The Eighties and Early Nineties (2012), and Partnership in Space: The Mid to Late Nineties (2014). He has also published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown and Astronomy Now.

Zusammenfassung

Continues the History of the Human Space Exploration miniseries by Evans, which commemorates over 50 years of humans in space

Provides a detailed account of the goals, missions, setbacks and achievements of those who ventured into space in the twenty-first century

Provides complete coverage of the future of the American space program and the emergence of new space programs around the world

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Raumfahrttechnik
Genre:	Importe , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xi 519 S. 87 farbige Illustr. 519 p. 87 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781493913060
ISBN-10:	1493913069
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Evans, Ben
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer New York
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	240 x 168 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	Ben Evans
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.12.2014
Gewicht:	0,882 kg