Książka Laboratorium kosmiczne Columbus

A milestone for space: With the installation of the research module "Columbus" in February 2008, the International Space Station finally to flying research platform. Also supplies European ATV of the future heavenly outpost regularly with material, thus closing the gap left by the Americans, if they will soon send the space shuttle to the museum. From 2009, the first time six astronauts will live and work permanently in the ISS. With "Columbus" do research in microgravity. How do the astronauts to work up there anyway? As the experiments are carried out? What they bring to life on Earth? What can we expect in the future of the space station? Will she become a springboard for flights to the moon or even Mars? Dirk Lorenzen looks for years in Europe Astronauts on the shoulder and reported in this exciting report exclusively with unique footage of the spectacular missions in space.

The astrophysicist Dirk H. Lorenzen, born 1968, worked as a journalist, specializing in astronomy and space, especially for the radio and Germany, the ARD radio. For cosmos, he has already published several books on current research topics.

224 pages, 150 color photos