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Title:
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Outposts on the frontier : a fifty-year history of space stations /
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Authors:
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Jay Chladek, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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[S.l.] : University of Nebraska Press, 2017
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Series:
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Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-8032-2292-2
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Size:
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xvi, 494 p. / ill. / 23 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL797
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Subjects:
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Outer space--Exploration
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Space stations--History
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Description:
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The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, 'Outposts on the Frontier' reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past 50 years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty.
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