EAN: 9781493913060

SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTUR...

This final entry in the History of Human Space Exploration mini-series by Ben Evans continues
with an in-depth look at the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the new
millennium. Picking up where Partnership in Space left off  the story commemorating the
evolution of manned space exploration unfolds in further detail. More than fifty years after
Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space  Evans extends his overview of how that momentous
voyage continued through the decades which followed. The Twenty-first Century in Space  the
sixth book in the series  explores how the fledgling partnership between the United States and
Russia in the 1990s gradually bore fruit and laid the groundwork for today's International
Space Station. The narrative follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs  together
with standalone missions  including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope  many of whose
technical and human lessons enabled the first efforts to build the ISS in orbit. The book also
looks to the future of developments in the 21st century.

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