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The Spacelab Story, 1st ed. 2024 Science Aboard the Shuttle Space Exploration Series

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage The Spacelab Story
Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space. Across more than a dozen missions, Spacelab?s pressurized research modules and science pallets supported hundreds of experiments from the life to microgravity sciences, from Earth science to astrophysics and from materials processing to fluid dynamics.

For the first time, The Spacelab Story sheds light on all the Spacelab missions that served as pathfinders for the eventual International Space Station, along with all the flights that never came to be. The book chronicles over two decades of service and international partnership with Germany, Japan, Canada, Russia, the member-states of the European Space Agency and others.

The very same international co-operation that led to Spacelab?s genesis also conspired to create its end. Science writer Ben Evans chronicles this tumultuous history, showing how, as tensions between the superpowers cooled in the 1990s and the Shuttle came to be increasingly used to fly joint missions to Mir, many Spacelab missions were delayed and eventually cancelled.

This book is a must-read for anybody interested in the science conducted aboard the Shuttle, the experimental precursors of the ISS, and the international politics surrounding NASA?s pioneering space endeavors.

Foreword

       Acknowledgments

       Author’s preface

 

       1   Living and Working in Space

            Early Dreams of Space Stations

            “A Laboratory in Space”

            The Manned Orbiting Laboratory

            Apollo Applications and Skylab

            Science Aboard the Soviet Space Stations

            Early Plans for a Shuttle-Borne Laboratory

           

       2   An International Endeavour

            Spacelab Arises

The Need for International Collaboration

            Designing the Hardware

            Training on the Ground

            Troubles Along the Way

            The Long Road to the First Mission

            Spacelab-1: An International Triumph

 

       3   The Module-Only Missions

            Spacelab-3

            Spacelab Life Sciences

            International Microgravity Laboratory

            The German Spacelab Mission

            The Japanese Spacelab Mission

            A Mission to Mir

            Life and Microgravity Spacelab

            Microgravity Science Laboratory

            Neurolab

           

       4   The Pallet-Only Missions

            Spacelab-2

            ASTRO

            EOM and ATLAS

            Space Radar Laboratory

            Other Pallet-Only Missions

                       

       5   The End of Spacelab and a Lasting Legacy

            Political Winds of Change and the End of Spacelab

Cancelled and Unflown Spacelabs    

            Transition to Spacehab and Space Station

            The Legacy of Spacelab        

 

       Bibliography

       About The Author

       Index

Since 1992, Evans has written extensively for the magazines Spaceflight, Countdown, Astronomy Now, Astronomy, All About Space and BBC Sky at Night Magazine. Evans is currently the senior writer for the website AmericaSpace.com, where he covers space history, launches and International Space Station news. He has written numerous previous books for the Springer-Praxis imprint, including NASA’s Voyager Missions (2003), Space Shuttle Columbia (2005), Space Shuttle Challenger (2006), and The Space Shuttle (2021). He also wrote a six-volume History of Human Space Exploration, published between 2009 to 2014.

Chronicles the entire history of the Spacelab program

Explores the international politics and parternships that influenced Spacelab science

Traces each Spacelab mission in depth and shows how the program contributed to the eventual ISS