New PDF release: At Home in Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties

By Ben Evans

ISBN-10: 1441988092

ISBN-13: 9781441988096

This quantity, just like the others, not just focuses upon the person missions in the decade but additionally upon key demanding situations dealing with human area exploration at particular issues inside these years - from the issues of easily respiring and consuming in house to the demanding situations of venturing outdoors in a pressurized spacesuit, the advance of more recent and higher house bathrooms, and the problems of locomotion at the Moon. The Eighties was once a time whilst touring into house way more standard. interpreting intimately the yank and Soviet fronts, Ben Evans supplies a finished research of the various fortunes of the U.S. area travel within the Eighties, together with its early attempt flights and advertisement flights, its difficulties, the 51L tragedy and its aftermath, and the resumption of operations with STS-26. The U.S. tale ends with STS-37 in April 1991. within the Soviet sphere, pivotal house station efforts - Salyut 7 and its succesor, Mir - are thought of, exhibiting how they have been alike and different.

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