INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

In 1984 President R. Reagan gave NASA the go-ahead to build a Space Station. A generation later, the International Space Station is an established and highly successful research centre in Earth orbit. The history of this extraordinary project is a complex weave of powerful threads political, diplomatic, financial and technological among them but none is more fascinating than the story of i ts design. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the International Space Stations conception, development and assem bly in space...[Leer más]