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Series
Progress in astronautics and aeronautics volume 99
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
xii, 392 p. : ill.
Series
Progress in astronautics and aeronautics volume 127
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
xxi, 379 p. : ill.
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 online resource (46 min.).
Description
Chronicles the history of space stations, from the launch of Skylab to the plans for the next generation of these structures. Engineers and scientists from around the world talk about what was learned from Skylab and Mir, and how the design of the newest station overcomes the obstacles that rendered its predecessors unusable. Also discusses the proposed international space station.
7) Blast off!
Author
Series
Abby in orbit volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
It is Abby Baxter's first day of third grade on the OASIS International Space Station and she is determined not to make any mistakes, but getting used to microgravity, watching her little brother, Nico, and meeting her new classmates, causes her to almost mess up Mami' big experiment.
Series
Above and beyond volume Episode 6
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 min.)
Description
Feature Story: The traditional space walk ties to the craft has been advanced and now allows independent movement in space. All Systems Are Go: Answering sea level questions for Greenland. Trailblazers: Gemini missions provided training and experiments of the most basic sciences and the techniques were tested to hold man in good stead for the next four decades in space. Feature Story: An orbiting workshop in space.
Series
Above and beyond volume Episode 13
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (25 min.)
Description
Feature: We take you on board the space shuttle discovery as she hurtles into space on the pursuit of the International Space Station.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 min.)
Description
Student Design: Here we look at the different ways that NASA continues its development through business ideas and student innovations. Olympic Security: Satellite technology is now being incorporated into security protection at high profile events such as the Olympics. Mir Space Station: A look back at the history of Russian exploration in space focusing on the ill-fated Mir Space Station that was sunk in the Pacific in 2002. IRAS: This Infrared Astronomical...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 minutes)
Description
Episode 203 - Space Station Freedom: The Space Station Freedom was the name given to the NASA project to construct a permanently manned Earth- Orbiting space station. Unfortunately the Freedom was never completed as it was originally planned and after several cutbacks, what was the remains of the Freedom, became the building blocks of the International Space Station that orbits earth today.
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Above and beyond volume Episode 23
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (23 min.)
Description
Feature: NASA's contribution into the exploration of space in the early 1960's. Big Bang: A Sky-Lab probing our solar system and unmasking many mysteries of the sun so that we may better understand how it affects our weather, communications, and our destiny.
17) This is the year
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Formats
Description
"In a near-future Florida ravaged by climate catastrophe, seventeen-year-old Julieta Villarreal is recruited by a space exploration program for immigrant teens after her twin sister is killed in a car crash."-- Provided by publisher.
20) The space game
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (60 min.).
Description
The Space Game tells the unlikely story of how nations in deadly rivalry were able to bury their differences to create an outpost for humanity in space. The Western Alliance - U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Europe - combined their scientific resources to build a permanent manned space station. But in 1997, the then US Secretary of Defence, Caspar Weinberger, launched a bid to use the station as a Pentagon laboratory for military operations.
