Space stations: books - history and technology

Star Trek - USS Enterprise Manual - NX-01, NCC-1701, NCC-1701-A to NCC-1701-E (2151 onwards) (Haynes Space Manual)

The Starship Enterprise gets the Haynes treatment! This fascinating Haynes Manual features cutaway drawings, technical illustrations and photographs along with comprehensive background information and specifications on the technology used on board the USS Enterprise, in all its various incarnations.

Seasoned Star Trek writers lift the lid on the most iconic spaceship of all time, while accuracy and authority are guaranteed by Technical Consultant Michael Okuda. This is one book no Star Trek fan should be without.

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Author:	Ben Robinson, Marcus Riley,Michael Okuda
Details:	160 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 x 1.6 cm / 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.63 in, hardback
Illustrations:	200 illustrations in colour
Publisher:	Haynes Publishing (GB, 2010)
Series:	Haynes Space Manual
ISBN:	9781844259410

International Space Station Manual - all stages (1998-2011) (Haynes Space Manual)

The International Space Station (ISS) is a permanently manned earth-orbiting complex where astronauts carry out research into a wide range of scientific activities. It comprises modules built in the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.

Author David Baker examines how the ISS was built, the logistics modules and freighters operated by its user nations, how the ISS works as an integrated facility, life on board, what the ISS does, the research carried out and who benefits.

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Author:	David Baker
Details:	176 pages, 28 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm / 11 x 8.5 x 0.59 in, hardback
Illustrations:	300 colour photos
Publisher:	Haynes Publishing (GB, 2015)
Series:	Haynes Space Manual
ISBN:	9780857338396

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

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 to complete decades before, 37 Shuttle missions carried the majority of the hardware needed to build the ISS and then acted as a ferry and supply train for early resident crews to the station.

Building upon the decades of development and experience described in the companion volume "Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations: Early Docking Technologies from Concept to Implementation", this book explores
- a purpose-built hardware processing facility
- challenging spacewalking objectives
- extensive robotic operations
- undocking a unmanned orbiter.

The experience and expertise gained through these missions allows space planners to improve space construction skills in advance of even more ambitious plans in the future.

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Author:	David J. Shayler
Details:	350 pages, 24 x 17 cm / 9 x 6.7 in, paperback
Illustrations:	1 b&w and 140 colour photos
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing AG (CH, 2017)
ISBN:	9783319404417