2001: Building for space travel edited by John Zukowsky, Harry Abrams,
£27, ISBN 0810944901
NOSTALGIA is cheap: what space-watcher did not shed a tear at the cremation
of that orbiting broom cupboard, the Russian space station Mir? It didn’t matter
that it wasn’t a very good space station. It had character. There was machinery
on board that not even Flight Control could identify, and experimental apparatus
could go missing for months.
Nothing we build for space is actually done with people in mind, it seems. At
least space stations have an excuse for their state. They are the result of…
