Homesteading Space : The Skylab Story.

By: Hitt, W. DavidContributor(s): Garriott, Owen K | Kerwin, Joseph PMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Outward OdysseyPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (549 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803219014Subject(s): Manned space flight -- History -- 20th century | Outer space -- Exploration -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Skylab ProgramGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Homesteading Space : The Skylab StoryDDC classification: 629.45/4 LOC classification: TL789.8.U6 -- S5557 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. From the Ground Up -- 2. The Homesteaders -- 3. Getting Ready to Fly -- 4. Fifty-six Days in a Can -- 5. A Tour of Skylab -- 6. Ten Days in May -- 7. "We Fix Anything" -- 8. "Marooned" -- 9. High Performance -- 10. Sprinting a Marathon -- 11. Science on Skylab -- 12. What Goes Up . . . -- 13. The Legacy of Skylab -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
Summary: As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution there was the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of monumental technological challenges. Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab's own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. From the Ground Up -- 2. The Homesteaders -- 3. Getting Ready to Fly -- 4. Fifty-six Days in a Can -- 5. A Tour of Skylab -- 6. Ten Days in May -- 7. "We Fix Anything" -- 8. "Marooned" -- 9. High Performance -- 10. Sprinting a Marathon -- 11. Science on Skylab -- 12. What Goes Up . . . -- 13. The Legacy of Skylab -- Appendix -- Bibliography.

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution there was the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of monumental technological challenges. Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab's own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end.

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