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Spacelab : research in earth orbit

Title
Spacelab : research in earth orbit / David Shapland and Michael Rycroft.
Author
Shapland, David.
Publication
Cambridge [Cambridegshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Additional Authors
Rycroft, Michael J.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 26 cm
Summary
Charts the 12 year program of Spacelab's development to its launch on the Space Shuttle in 1983.
Subject
  • Spacelab Program
  • European Space Research Organisation
  • Spacelab Program
  • Space Flight > history
  • Laboratories > history
  • Spacecraft > history
  • History, 20th Century
  • Spacelab
  • Ruimtevaart
  • Spacelab
  • Europe
  • Europe
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
The impact of Spacelab: -- Statement by Erik Quistgaard for ESA -- Statement by James Beggs for NASA -- Statement by Sir Bernard Lovell -- Statement by Patrick Moore -- Foreword by Michel Bignier -- Preface by David Shapland -- Preface by Michael Rycroft -- Space, our latest frontier -- Spacelab -- made in Europe -- Into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle -- Science and technology from Spacelab -- Preparing for a Spacelab mission -- The first Spacelab flight -- Preliminary results of the first mission -- Orbiting laboratories of the future -- Views of the Spacelab one Payload Crew.
ISBN
  • 0521260779
  • 9780521260770
LCCN
84017456
OCLC
  • ocm11045304
  • 11045304
  • SCSB-601607
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library