Partnership in space [electronic resource] : the mid to late nineties / Ben Evans.
Evans, Ben, 1976-, author.
2014
TL788.4
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Title Partnership in space [electronic resource] : the mid to late nineties / Ben Evans.
Author Evans, Ben, 1976-, author.
ISBN 9781461432784 electronic book
1461432782 electronic book
9781461432777
1461432774
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3278-4
Published New York : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-1-4614-3278-4 doi
Call Number TL788.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 629.409049
Summary This latest entry in the History of Human Space Exploration miniseries by Ben Evans continues with an in-depth look at the mid to late Nineties. Picking up where Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit: The Eighties and Early Nineties left off, the story commemorating the evolution of manned space exploration unfolds here in yet more detail. More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarins pioneering journey into space, Evans extends his comprehensive overview of how that momentous journey continued through the decades that followed. Partnership in Space, the fifth book in the series, explores the final years in which the United States and the Soviet Union which became the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1992 pursued human space endeavors independently of each other. The narrative follows the path taken by two old foes towards an unlikely and often controversial partnership. As the Shuttle program recovered from the loss of Challenger and pursued ever loftier goals, including the ambitious repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, Mir suffered from economic collapse and political neglect. Yet both Mir and the Shuttle formed a fertile ground upon which the seeds of what would become today's International Space Station were sown. Both nations acutely needed the support of the other to achieve their goals. As political relations thawed between the two superpowers, a new relationship was forged. This cooperation saw Russians flying aboard the Shuttle and Americans flying aboard Mir and became a partnership that endures to this day.
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