03715nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-53449-2 DE-He213 20251030112008.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240424s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031534492 978-3-031-53449-2 10.1007/978-3-031-53449-2 doi TL787-4050 TTD bicssc SCI098000 bisacsh TTD thema Evans, Ben. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75661 The Spacelab Story [electronic resource] : Science Aboard the Shuttle / by Ben Evans. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXII, 433 p. 126 illus., 122 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Space Exploration, 2731-541X Chapter 1. Unequal partners -- Chapter 2. A difficult path to First Flights -- Chapter 3. Verification Flight Test One -- Chapter 4. Verification Flight Test Two -- Chapter 5. Of monkeys, mice and men -- Chapter 6. Deutschland-Eins -- Chapter 7. Stargazers -- Chapter 8. Earthgazers -- Chapter 9. X-SAR-Crossed Lovers -- Chapter 10. Mission for Japan -- Chapter 11. Mission for Italy -- Chapter 12. In the absence of gravitas -- Chapter 13. The human factor. Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space. Across more than a dozen missions, Spacelab’s pressurized research modules and science pallets supported hundreds of experiments from the life to microgravity sciences, from Earth science to astrophysics and from materials processing to fluid dynamics. For the first time, The Spacelab Story sheds light on all the Spacelab missions that served as pathfinders for the eventual International Space Station, along with all the flights that never came to be. The book chronicles over two decades of service and international partnership with Germany, Japan, Canada, Russia, the member-states of the European Space Agency and others. The very same international co-operation that led to Spacelab’s genesis also conspired to create its end. Science writer Ben Evans chronicles this tumultuous history, showing how, as tensions between the superpowers cooled in the 1990s and the Shuttle came to be increasingly used to fly joint missions to Mir, many Spacelab missions were delayed and eventually cancelled. This book is a must-read for anybody interested in the science conducted aboard the Shuttle, the experimental precursors of the ISS, and the international politics surrounding NASA’s pioneering space endeavors. Outer space Exploration. 69043 Astronautics. 66336 Aerospace engineering. 66335 Science History. 65232 Space Exploration and Astronautics. 69044 Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. 66339 History of Science. 66101 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031534485 Printed edition: 9783031534508 Space Exploration, 2731-541X 75662 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53449-2 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 59338 59338