Challenges of Human Space Exploration (Springer Praxis Books) - Softcover

Freeman, Marsha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852332018 ISBN 13: 9781852332013

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

This non-technical and well illustrated book tells the story of what was accomplished during the Shuttle-Mir programme by three of the astronauts. Based on interviews granted to the author by the astronauts, the book describes the experiments they took and the lessons they learned. In doing so it provides a unique insight into how adversity and challenges can be overcome in the process of exploration, making it ideally suited to those planning space missions of a long-duration. Amongst the topics covered are: growing food in space, curing disease with space crystals, and lessons learned form Mir. It also contains interviews with managers of the space programme at the Johnson Space Centre and scientists involved in the experiments.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852332018
• ISBN 13: 9781852332013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259