International Space Station: An Interactive Space Exploration Adventure
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Allison Lassieur
Allison Lassieur has never had pop-star dreams, but she once sang in a choir that went on a multi-state tour on the way to Walt Disney World. Today she’s an award-winning author of more than 150 history and non-fiction books about everything from Ancient Rome to the International Space Station. Her books have received several Kirkus starred reviews and Booklist recommendations, and her historical novel Journey to a Promised Land was awarded the 2020 Kansas Library Association Notable Book Award, and Library of Congress Great Reads Book selection. Allison lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a scruffy, loveable mutt named Jingle Jack, and more books than she can count.
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International Space Station - Allison Lassieur
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ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE
The International Space Station is one of the world’s most ambitious engineering marvels. It took an army of designers, engineers, scientists, and astronauts around the globe to make the science fiction of a station in space come true.
In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between success and failure. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.
Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.
YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.
CHAPTER 1
SCIENCE FICTION COMES TO LIFE
The idea of a permanent station in space where people could live used to be nothing more than science fiction. In 1869, a story called The Brick Moon,
by Edward Everett Hale, described a round brick structure launched into orbit with people on board. The brick moon
was the first description of a space station. After that, writers and scientists imagined round space stations, flat space stations, tube-shaped space stations, and even an inflatable space station!
Space stations like the one engineer Wernher von Braun imagined in 1952 helped ignite public interest in this new area of space exploration.
Then in the 1950s, another science fiction idea did become real: spaceflight. The Soviet Union put the first satellite, Sputnik I, into space in 1957. Four years later, in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to see Earth from space. In 1969, the world watched as humans walked on the moon. Suddenly the idea of a permanent station in space didn’t seem so much like fiction after all.
The first try at a real space station came in the 1970s. The Soviet Union launched the experimental Salyut 1 space station in 1971. It stayed in orbit for 175 days. One three-man crew stayed on the station for three weeks. In 1973 the U.S. sent Skylab station into orbit. It stayed in space for six years. During that time, Skylab had three crews, and each crew lived in space for up to several months.
Both were designed to test systems that a permanent station would need. Eventually they were both shut down and sent crashing to Earth. But they proved that a permanent station could be a reality.
In 1984 President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S. would build the first permanent space station. Reagan said: A space station will permit quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, and in metals and lifesaving medicines which could be manufactured only in space.
Then he challenged other countries to join the United States in this adventure, saying: We want our friends to help us meet these challenges and share in their benefits. NASA will invite other countries to participate so we can strengthen peace, build prosperity, and expand freedom for all who share our goals.
Eventually the leaders of space programs in Russia, Europe, Japan, Brazil, and Canada joined the project. In 1998 the first section of the International Space Station (ISS) was launched into orbit. Since 2000 the ISS has orbited Earth, welcoming astronauts from all over the world to live and work there.
Skylab helped pave the way for the ISS.
The ISS represents the first time that a global team of engineers and scientists combined forces to design and create a space station. But why build it in the first place? The