Assembling and Supplying the ISS: The Space Shuttle Fulfills Its Mission

by David J. Shayler

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration. But without the Space Shuttle, it would have remained an impossible dream. Assembling and Supplying the ISS is the story of how, between 1998 and 2011, the Shuttle became the platform which enabled the construction and continued operation of the primary scientific research facility in Earth orbit.
Fulfilling an objective it had been designed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319404415
• ISBN13: 9783319404417
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.7"