space stations

This book offers background information about the International space station, tracing its development from the planning stages on through to the realization of this gigantic project.

"With tensions mounting between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, Ambassador Jetanien works frantically on Starbase Vanguard to halt the escalation toward war. Commodore Diego Reyes, the station's former commander, awaits trial for treason, while the shattered mind of his intelligence officer, T'Prynn, becomes the battlefield in a fight for her very life."--back cover.

Follows the progress of the Skylab project from the preliminary planning and construction of the laboratory through the experiments, launches, and experiences of the nine astronauts living and working in earth orbit.

Discusses the achievements of outer space exploration in this century and examines future possibilities such as a permanent space station, colonies in space, and journeys outside the solar system.

The author chronicles his years as a NASA astronaut from his time in training to the ultimate moment in his career spent sky walking. Features a section of color photographs, an appendix of mission statistics, and a glossary of space terms.

Pong, worried about going to live with her parents on the International Space Station, gets a grand welcome from the Gizmos--other children who live on the orbiting research laboratory.

Zenon, who lives on a space station in 2049, is mortified when her father buys her an embarrassing Bobo robotic dog instead of the cool Tobo Dog, but Bobo comes in handy when the Tobo Dogs go crazy and turn on their owners.

Rayk, a guide to the Near-Star Planets, a small solar system discovered by his father, finds himself in deep trouble when he accompanies Jan Clair on a mission for her father to investigate a problem on Planet Leem.

Jake follows a ghost-like figure on a dangerous mission in order to save the space station.