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- Continues the History of the Human Space Exploration miniseries by Evans, which commemorates over 50 years of humans in space
- Provides a detailed account of the goals, missions, setbacks and achievements of those who ventured into space in the twenty-first century
- Provides complete coverage of the future of the American space program and the emergence of new space programs around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Space Exploration (SPACEE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This final entry in the History of Human Space Exploration mini-series by Ben Evans continues with an in-depth look at the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium. Picking up where Partnership in Space left off, the story commemorating the evolution of manned space exploration unfolds in further detail. More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space, Evans extends his overview of how that momentous voyage continued through the decades which followed.
The Twenty-first Century in Space, the sixth book in the series, explores how the fledgling partnership between the United States and Russia in the 1990s gradually bore fruit and laid the groundwork for today’s International Space Station. The narrative follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs, together with standalone missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, many of whose technical and human lessons enabled the first efforts to build the ISS in orbit. The book also looks to the future of developments in the 21st century.
Reviews
“Evans … provides a full biographical background, often with a number of personal anecdotes, on all major (and many minor) participants in the history. … It will serve as a standard reference work for students and the aerospace community. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 52 (11), July, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Space Writer, Atherstone, United Kingdom
Ben Evans
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Twenty-first Century in Space
Authors: Ben Evans
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1307-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1306-0Published: 16 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1307-7Published: 15 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 519
Number of Illustrations: 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)