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Information about this CD Welcome Book Table of Contents Forward History's Highest Stage STS-60: A Cosmonaut Flies on the Shuttle STS-63: First Rendezvous NASA-1 Norm Thagard: An End and a Beginning STS-71: First Docking STS-74: A New Docking Module STS-76: Starting a Continuous U.S. Presence NASA-2 Shannon Lucid: Enduring Qualities STS-79: First American Handover NASA-3 John Blaha: Pulling it Together STS-81: Bringing Back the Harvest NASA-4 Jerry Linenger: Fire and Controversy STS-84: Delivery and Pick Up NASA-5 Michael Foale: Collision and Recovery STS-86: Loaded with Experience NASA-6 David Wolf: Recommitment to Mir STS-89: Last NASA Astronaut to Mir NASA-7 Andy Thomas: Smoother Sailing STS-91: Closing Out Shuttle-Mir Looking Back, Looking Forward Mir Space Station Appendixes Acknowledgements Bibliographic Essay and Chapter Notes Personal Mementos Book Features Training and Operations Bilingual Blues Long Duration Psychology Earth Observations CD Supplements Science Photo Gallery (listed by mission or increment) Video Gallery (listed by mission or increment) Video Tour of Spaceflight History Mir Deorbit Animation Progress Collision and Mir Spin Animation STS-86 Fly-around Animation Diagrams of U.S. and Russian Spacecraft (Mercury through Shuttle-Mir) Patches of the STS missions and Mir increments Children's Book - a virtual tour for younger space enthusiasts NASA Public Affairs Office - How they publicized the Shuttle-Mir story Lifting of Secrecy - How the U.S. and Russian relationship has changed Russian Space Agency and Energia - Russian agency formed after the breakup of the Soviet Union NASA and Human Spaceflight - NASAs efforts in human spaceflight Working Groups - NASA's teams and their responsibilities Before Mir: Early Soviet Space Stations Skylab: America's First Space Station Around the Clock, Around the Globe - NASA teams work all hours to solve problems Getting back to Gravity - Readaptation to gravity after spaceflight Safety and Risk - Shuttle-Mir safety and the risks involved Documents Publications Mir Hardware Heritage by D. S. F. Portree Mir Mission Chronicles by Sue McDonald What's in a Name? by Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. Brief History of NASA by Stephen J. Garber & Roger D. Launius U. S. Human Spaceflight (1961 - 1998) by Judy Rumerman "Six Months on Mir" by Shannon Lucid, Scientific American Part 1: Early Space Station Activities - 1923 - July 1965 (excerpted from Skylab: A Chronology SP-4011) by Roland W. Newkirk & Ivan D. Ertel with Courtney G. Brooks Phase 1 Research Program Overview by John J. Uri "Combustion Experiments on the Mir Space Station" submitted by Paul Ferkul, et al. "Summary: Combustion Experiments on Mir" submitted by Howard D. Ross, et al. "Fluid Physics Experiments on the Mir Space Station" submitted by Jeffrey S. Allen and Suzanne Saavedra "Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS) on Mir" submitted by R. DeLombard and S. Ryaboukha Governmental Proceedings Congressional Mir Safety Hearings - September 18, 1997 Inspector General's Letter to Congress Concerning Shuttle-Mir Program - August 29, 1997 The Outer Space Treaty - 1967 Personal Reflections - While onboard Mir, the NASA Mir Astronauts shared their thoughts in letters sent to friends and family on Earth. Shannon Lucid - Letters Home John Blaha Pens a Letter Home Jerry Linenger's Letters to his Son David Wolf - Letters Home Andy Thomas - Letters from the Outpost Personal Mementos from the seven NASA Mir Astronauts NASA Reports Phase 1 Program Joint Report edited by George C. Nield & Pavel Mikhailovich Vorobiev Competition vs. Cooperation 1959 - 1962 from The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project by Edward Clinton Ezell & Linda Neuman Ezell Phase 1 Science Report - featuring information on the eight Shuttle-Mir science disciplines Shuttle-Mir News NASA Press Briefings STS Mission Summaries (listed by mission) STS Mission Highlights Mir Increment Summaries (listed by increment) Crew Biographies (listed by missions and increments) Profiles of Astronauts, Cosmonauts, U.S. Mir Residents and Team Members Timelines Text Timeline Graphic Timeline Oral Histories List of Participants (with links to their oral history) Discovery in Space (introductory mpeg video) Search
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