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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Books
- Island in the Sky: Building the International
Space Station by Piers Bizony. London: Aurum Press Ltd, 1996.
Though out of date (as anything concerning
the ISS tends to be within months of publication), this well-illustrated
volume boasts a wealth of detail about the largest engineering project
ever undertaken in space.
- This New Ocean: The Story of the First
Space Age by William E. Burrows. New York: The Modern Library, 1999.
A finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
for History, this is a comprehensive history of humankind's efforts
to travel into space.
- Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard
Mir by Bryan Burrough. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
This hefty but accessible book chronicles
the harrowing experiences, including a fire and a mid-space collision,
that two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut endured aboard
the Russian space station Mir.
- International Space Station: A Space
Mission by Michael D. Cole. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers,
1999.
Part of the series "Countdown to Space,"
this volume for students answers questions from why we need an International
Space Station to who will biuld it and how it will be built.
- Islands in the Sky: The Space Station
Theme in Science Fiction Literature by Gary Westfahl. San Bernardino,
CA: The Borgo Press, 1996.
Westfahl takes a look back at SF visions
of space stations, beginning with Edward Everett Hale's accidentally
inhabited artificial satellite in his 1869 "The Brick Moon."
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