The Story of Space Station Mir (Springer Praxis Books) 2005th Edition by David M. Harland (PDF)

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* Details how a succession of Salyut space stations led to the development of Mir. * Depicts Mir’s assembly piece by piece, in space, between 1982 and 1996. * Describes how Mir became an international research laboratory. * Advises how Mir technology went on to form the ‘core modules’ of the ISS. * The definitive account of Mir throughout its life through to de-orbiting in March 2001.

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⭐This is a very dense 424 pages book.An excellent book, written in a narrative mode, of the MIR space station program. It is not a technical description of the spacecraft, but rather a story of all Russian space stations. Detailed and thorough, it can be read as a thriller, a tribute to the Russian way of handling problems. There are 3 main sections, Salyut, MIR and an extremely interesting 82 pages glossary, which spare numerous explanations to be laid as microscopic bottom page legends. The back cover is an accurate account of the book, and they are many good, but small, quality black and white rare pictures. Few diagrams and schematics though… The title, MIR, is a bit inaccurate, as the first 139 pages are devoted to the Salyut program. The other 178 pages is the detailed account of the saga of the MIR space station. This book organization makes sense, because the evolution of the Salyut program explains many of the basic design options of MIR.The book contains lots of interesting details about life in space, scientific experiments, human relationships, space walks, management problems and the incredible resilience of Russian cosmonauts. We can know all the things we wish to know at the time, thanks to soviet era secrecy policy.After reading the book, the contribution to the design of the ISS from the experience gained in MIR becomes obvious, so many lessons taken from all the incidents that happened.

⭐There is a lot of information packed in the text of the book. A fair percentage of the pictures have a look and feel as if they were perhaps photocopied from newspapers, or are photographs of video screens, but this book isn’t being offered for its visual art, it is being offered for its historical data & it contains abundant volumes of that.

⭐The focus of the book is on Soviet/Russian space station operations in general: the first third of the book covers operations on board the Salyut stations.On the downside, there is little mention of station module design and construction prior to launch, and often the scientific instruments on board are merely mentioned in passing by name.

⭐The book offers a very good coverage of the station history and visitors. It is a step in the right direction and provides a balancing view to a propaganda generated by publications hailing NASA as the only winer in cosmic space. In this way it’s a very refreshing read. Next, I would like to see a story about Lunochod (Russian automated lunar explorer)I find the language a bit “wooden”, which might be a result of a direct translation from Russian documentation. Also, I’ve had an overwhelming impression that the author had not done much research in astronautic terms, and one can see semantic void encompassing scientific data included in the book.

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