Outposts on the Frontier: A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations

by Jay M. Chladek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222920
• ISBN13: 9780803222922
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"