The MIR Space Station: A Precursor to Space ColonizationThis book explores the development and operation of the Mir Space Station over the last ten years, focusing on the engineering technology aspects of constructing and operating an orbital complex designed to be occupied by humans for long periods of time. |
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Page 160
... figures . It was little consola- tion knowing that this would have been much worse if the third couch had been occupied . There was no point trying to return to Mir , because the Kurs antenna and the docking unit had been discarded with ...
... figures . It was little consola- tion knowing that this would have been much worse if the third couch had been occupied . There was no point trying to return to Mir , because the Kurs antenna and the docking unit had been discarded with ...
Page 214
... figure out why a docking system which had worked flawlessly for years should suddenly fail . The handover was scheduled to last almost a month so that ESA could perform an extended research programme on the first of its two commercial ...
... figure out why a docking system which had worked flawlessly for years should suddenly fail . The handover was scheduled to last almost a month so that ESA could perform an extended research programme on the first of its two commercial ...
Page 350
... figure out how the world ever functioned without it . Table 15.5 . Soyuz launches and recoveries Spacecraft Launched MT Recovered MT Days Soyuz 1 23 Apr 1967 0335 24 Apr 1967 0623 1.12 Soyuz 2 25 Oct 1968 1200 28 Oct 1868 1100 2.96 ...
... figure out how the world ever functioned without it . Table 15.5 . Soyuz launches and recoveries Spacecraft Launched MT Recovered MT Days Soyuz 1 23 Apr 1967 0335 24 Apr 1967 0623 1.12 Soyuz 2 25 Oct 1968 1200 28 Oct 1868 1100 2.96 ...
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Into the unknown | 3 |
3 | 51 |
A step towards permanent occupancy | 97 |
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aboard adaptation to weightlessness airlock apparatus assess astronauts Atlantis atmosphere base block biomedical Buran camera capsule cargo ferry cassettes compartment complex cosmonauts Cosmos crew delivered descent module detector developed docking port Dzhanibekov engine exited the airlock experiment on Salyut flight flown front port furnace gravity gyrodynes handover hatch installed Intercosmos International Space Station Kaliningrad Kizim Krikalev Kristall module Kurs Kvant later launch Lyakhov Manarov manoeuvring measure metres microgravity Mir's mission monitor mounted NASA NASA's operations orbital module payload Poliakov Priroda programme Progress Progress-M propellant radiation rear port rendezvous retrieved return to Earth rocket Romanenko samples satellite schedule sensors Serebrov service module shuttle solar panels Solovyov Soviet Soyuz Soyuz 11 Soyuz 22 Soyuz-TM spacecraft Spacelab spacewalk spectrometer Spektr Strekalov structure Svetlana Savitskaya telescope thermal thrusters Titov transfer truss undocked Valeri Ryumin Viktorenko Vladimir Vladimir Dzhanibekov weightlessness X-ray Yuri