Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Dedication; Prologue; 1: An Alternative Plan; Shuffling the Shuttle to Assemble the Station; NASA's Tier-2: An Alternative Assembly Plan; The Interim Control Module; Tier-2 Assembly; Ground Rules And Assumptions; Systems And Logistical Impacts; A Useful But Redundant Study; From Imagination to Reality; Summary; Notes; 2: The Shuttle-ISS Assembly Missions; Pages From History; Shuttle Missions to Create the ISS (Phase- II); Shuttle Missions to Expand the ISS (Phase-III); Return to Flight, Again; Shuttle Station Assembly: A Summary

Shuttle at Station Notes; 3: The Human Element; Becoming Very Well Trained; Specialist Training; First ISS Assembly Crew Named; Change Of ISS-1 Crewing; Expanding ISS Preparations; First Four ISS Resident Crews Named; Gearing Up For ISS; ISS Assembly Commences; A Real Space Odyssey in 2001; Success Before Setback, 2002; Recovery; Resuming Training; Medical Condition; Expansion; Launch Dates Set For The Remaining Shuttle Missions; 2009 And All-Change On The ISS; Crew for the Final Scheduled Shuttle Mission; 2010 Towards Assembly Completion; Launch-On-Need (LON) Crew Named

STS-135 Added To The Manifest 2011: The Final Countdown(S); The End Of An Era; By the Numbers; Shuttle-ISS; Notes; 4: Putting It All Together; Establishing an Efficient Timeline; Mission Management Team; Preparations at the Cape; KSC Launch Directors; Shuttle-ISS Mission Processing; Space Station Hardware Processing; Creating A Fail-Safe System; Space Station Processing Facility; Planning The Process; Organizing The Process; Processing The Hardware; Flight Hardware Processing; A New Tenant; Postponements, Delays And Scrubs: ISS, 1997-2002

Postponement, Delays And Scrubs: Post-Columbia Return-To-Flight Attempting To Resume Assembly: 2008-2009; The Final Stretch: 2009-2010; The Last Stacks Standing; Launch-On-Need; Into the Wide Blue Yonder; Notes; 5: Getting There; From Pad to Orbit; Mission Control Houston, Shuttle-ISS; Director Of Operations In Russia; Shuttle At ISS; Shuttle Docking Profile; Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver; The Docked Phase; It's All In The Moves; Extra Power; Re-Boost; A Growing Station; Habitability On Station; Down to Business; Notes; 6: Crew Transfers and Loadmasters; The Carriers

Unpressurized Carriers The Stowage Facilities; A Moving Experience; Plan Against Reality; The 'Bad Air' Incident On STS-96; Experiments and Investigations; Summary; Notes; 7: Building a Space Station; A Manipulator for Shuttle; A Helping Hand; Arming The Shuttle; Deployment And Retrieval Operations; RMS on ISS Assembly Missions; RMS Operators; Balancing The Boom; Robotics At A Stretch; STS-88: The First ISS Robotics Maneuvers; Updating The RMS; Using the Arms at the ISS; Moving Logistics; Delivering SSRMS; Robotic Hand-Offs; Installing Modules; EVA Support; RMS Legacy