Space Station Gb - Hardcover

Billings, Charlene W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399612343 ISBN 13: 9780399612343

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 1989

Describes the design, functions, and possible methods of construction of the permanently manned space station proposed by NASA and projects what it will be like to live and work there

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-7 Despite a handsome appearance, some well-chosen photos (about half of them brightly colored), and an enthusiastic but not extravagant tone, this won't replace Branley's drier but more accurate chapters in Columbia and Beyond (Philomel, 1979; o.p.). Billings discusses the currently fashionable "Power Tower" design, but her descriptions do not entirely match the accompanying diagram; later on, an otherwise fine account of the physiological changes astronauts have experienced in orbit does not mention calcium loss, and her infirmary doesn't seem to be equipped to treat types of accidents peculiar to space. The text is carefully impersonal and nonsexist, but the illustrations show just one womanpartially obscured and not in a spacecraft. Last but not least, there are a few factual errors"objects too heavy to lift on Earth" cannot "be moved with the mere touch of a fingertip." Wait for more comprehensive treatments. John Peters, New York Public Library
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