About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 180. Chapters: Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Project Mercury, Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Discovery, Buran program, Skylab, Mir, Shenzhou, Apollo Lunar Module, SpaceShipOne, North American X-15, Orion, Exploration of the Moon, Apollo Command/Service Module, Kliper, Project Gemini, Criticism of the Space Shuttle program, Soyuz, Dragon, SpaceShipTwo, Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, CSTS, HL-20 Personnel Launch System, Soyuz-TMA, Salyut 3, List of current and future lunar missions, Crew Exploration Vehicle, Lynx rocketplane, Manned Orbiting Laboratory, Blackstar, Altair, Prospective Piloted Transport System, TKS, Shenzhou program, NASA X-38, Space capsule, Soyuz 7K-L1, ISRO Orbital Vehicle, Tycho Brahe, CST-100, Almaz, Salyut 5, Voskhod, List of manned spacecraft, Hermes, Russian Orbital Segment, LK Lander, Zond program, S-550 Space capsule, Project 921-3, Orbital Space Plane Program, VSS Enterprise, Vostok, Lockheed L-301, Orion Lite, British Rail flying saucer, Military Soyuz, Fuji, Skylab B, Soyuz 7K-T, Soyuz 7K-L3, Soyuz 7K-TM, Merkur, Big Gemini, Soyuz 7K-OK, Soyuz 7KT-OK, Charles Osmond Frederick, Blue Gemini, Silver Dart, Soyuz-V, Soyuz-B, Air Power Park, VSS Voyager, Soyuz 7K-OKS, US Orbital Segment, TKS-based spacecraft, Soyuz-A, Xerus, MUSTARD, Manned Orbital Development System. Excerpt: The International Space Station (ISS) is an internationally developed research facility that is being assembled in low Earth orbit. The objective of the ISS, as defined by NASA, is to develop and test technologies for exploration spacecraft systems, develop techniques to maintain crew health and performance on missions beyond low Earth orbit, and gain operational experience that can be applied to exploration missions. On-orbit construction ...
