This book provides an insight into how people overcome adversity and challenges in order to explore. It provides historic examples of lessons for future human endeavours in space. The book could be used by those planning space missions of long duration in the future and by all those with an interest in space and exploration. It tells the story of what was accomplished during the Shuttle-Mir programme based on the interviews granted to the author by three of the astronauts. It focuses on their descriptions of the human aspects of exploration of space and their attempts to solve problems both mechanical and interpersonal. It describes the experiments they undertook during the Apollo-Soyuz and Shuttle-Mir programmes and the lessons learnded.

This book tells the story of what was accomplished during the Shuttle-Mir programme based on the interviews granted to the author by three of the astronauts. It focuses on their descriptions of the human aspects of exploration of space and their attempts to solve problems both mechanical and interpersonal. It describes the experiments they undertook during the Apollo/Soyuz and Shuttle-Mir programmes and the lessons learned.

Inhalt
Foreward.- Introduction.- Skylab sets the Stage.- The US and Russia Aboard Mir.- Growing Food in Space.- A Bip-Revolution Through Tissue Engineering.- Space Crystals Join the Fight Against Disease.- The Lessons Learned from Mir.- Science on an International Space Laboratory.- Appendices.- Bibliography.