This volume details for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 through to 2008, when it should reach American "Core Complete". It includes the recent installation of the final piece of U.S. hardware.

A comprehensive, highly readable account of complex, technical, political and human endeavor and a worthy successor to Creating the International Space Station (Springer Praxis, January 2002) by David Harland and John Catchpole. This volume details for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 through to 2008, when it should reach American Core Complete.

Covers in great detail for the first time the construction and occupation of the International Space Station from 2002 to 2008 Includes the recent delivery and installation of the final piece of U.S. hardware, Node-2, and all European and Japanese hardware Explains the impact of the tragic loss of Columbia on the ISS and the American space program in general Introduces the return to the Moon Ares-1 launch vehicle and Orion spacecraft as they are involved in the ISS program

Autorentext

John Catchpole is a freelance writer specialising in human spaceflight history. In addition to co-authoring Creating the International Space Station, he is also the author of Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme and has published over 150 magazine articles on the subject of human spaceflight and spaceflight history, including many in Spaceflight, a monthly magazine published by the British Interplanetary Society.

Inhalt
Early construction.- The ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force.- Commencing the Integrated Truss Structure.- Triumph and tragedy.- Recovery and restructuring.- Project Constellation.- Postscript.