Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story

by Joe Kerwin, David Hitt, Owen Garriott, et al.

Book Overview

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution there was the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of monumental technological challenges. Homesteading Space , by two of Skylab's own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803224346
• ISBN13: 9780803224346
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"