Challenges of Human Space Exploration

This book tells the story of what was accomplished during the Shuttle-Mir programme based on the interviews granted to the author by three of the astronauts. It focuses on their descriptions of the human aspects of exploration of space and their attempts to solve problems both mechanical and interpersonal. It describes the experiments they undertook during the Apollo/Soyuz and Shuttle-Mir programmes and the lessons learned.

List of contents

Summary of the Contents:
- Skylab sets the Stage
- The US and Russia Aboard Mir
- Growing Food in Space
- A Bip-Revolution Through Tissue Engineering
- Space Crystals Join the Fight Against Disease
- The Lessons Learned from Mir
- Science on an International Space Laboratory
- Appendices
- Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Marsha Freeman
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2003
• EAN: 9781852332013
• ISBN: 978-1-85233-201-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Weight: 606 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 259 p.
• Series: Space Exploration; Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences; Springer Praxis Books; Space Exploration; Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy