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Project Space Station

Plans for a Permanent Manned Space Station
  • ISBN-13: 9780811736985
  • Publisher: STACKPOLE BOOKS (NBN)
    Imprint: STACKPOLE BOOKS
  • By Brian O'Leary
  • Price: AUD $42.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2018
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 149.00mm) 176 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Astrophysics [PHVB]Space science [TTD]
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It's happening now-plans are being formulated under the coordination of NASA to launch a permanent, manned space station by the year 1990. Studies surveying user requirements, system attributes, and architectural options have been conducted, and you're on the top of these far-reaching considerations on the next big step taken within space! Now that the Shuttle and Spacelab are realities, NASA has set sights on a new horizon-a permanent, manned space station in the high frontier. The precedents have been set-Skylab hosted human visits for up to 84 days, and the Soviet's Salyut was and is a temporary base for cosmonaut crew. The differences are the term and scope of space station living and the accomplishments that can be realized with a permanent site and continuous experimentation within its facilities. Brian O'Leary, writer, astrophysicist, and former astronaut, describes the "tinkermodules" that will be carried to the earth's orbit to be assembled as a space station. His inside track information also lay
Brian O'Leary, Ph. D., has been tracking the development of space station planning through active involvement with its initial studies. He is a respected astrophysicist and specialist in space colonization, as well as a lecturer and writer. The author of
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