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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Into the unknown | 3 |
3 | 51 |
A step towards permanent occupancy | 97 |
Copyright | |
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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