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cspg
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posted 04-30-2016 02:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Assembling and Supplying the ISS: The Space Shuttle Fulfills its Mission
By David J. Shayler
This book tells the story of the International Space Station from the perspective of the space shuttle's involvement in how the assembly and re-supply of the station evolved. It captures how the intricate and wide-reaching infrastructure required by each mission was managed and provides a comprehensive view of the relationship between the shuttle and ISS.

The success in assembling the ISS over a period of 13 years came after gaining experience by sending the space shuttle to the Russian Mir space station in a three-year period during the second half of the 1990s, and after years of detailed study and evaluation. This book reviews those developments and how years of planning, hopes and dreams were turned into reality between 1995 and 2011.

It provides detailed reviews of the space shuttle missions at space stations, including how the skills were developed to achieve these missions, what happened on those flights, and how lessons learned from one mission were applied to subsequent operations. Note that no mission failed in its main objective across nine Mir dockings and one rendezvous mission and 37 shuttle flights to the ISS. The smoothness and reliability of actual station operations masks the years of hard work that went into each mission both in space and on the ground.

Using first-hand research, personal interviews and contemporary sources, an alternative story of the space shuttle is portrayed.

  • Springer, October 23, 2016
  • ISBN 978-3-319-40441-7

hermit
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posted 04-30-2016 06:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This project enters the copy-editing phase in the first week of May. (Change of plan. It will not be edited until August.)

Dave Shayler
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posted 07-18-2016 10:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dave Shayler   Click Here to Email Dave Shayler     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The final draft has been passed to the editor. A schedule change slipped this title a little in the scheme of things

hermit
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posted 07-18-2016 11:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Project received for editing.

cspg
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posted 03-01-2017 10:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The title is: "Assembling and Supplying the ISS: The Space Shuttle Fulfills Its Mission" (edited above).

Dave Shayler
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posted 07-07-2017 03:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dave Shayler   Click Here to Email Dave Shayler     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The edited copy has now been submitted for production. Expected to be published by September.

Two-time ISS assembly mission crewmember Jerry Ross (STS-88, STS-110) kindly provided both the Foreword and Afterword for this revised title.

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posted 08-09-2017 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This book is now shipping!

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