Download or read book Space Station Engineering Design Issues written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Space Station Freedom program is the next major U.S. manned space initiative. It has as its objective the establishment of a permanently manned facility in low earth orbit. This book summarizes the main findings and recommendations of a workshop that examined the space station program with a view toward identifying critical engineering issues related to the design and operation of the station.