TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTERI Into Orbit 5 CHAPTER 2 Skylab 11 CHAPTER 3 The Mir Space Station 15 CHAPTER 4 Building the International Space Station 21 FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY Space Robots 26 CHAPTER 5 Life in Space 29 CHAPTER 6 Aboard the ISS 35 PERSON OF IMPACT Leland Melvin 40 CHAPTER 7 Looking Ahead 43 Focus on Space Stations 46 Glossary 47 To Learn More 48 Index 48
CHAPTER 1 INTO ORBIT The alarm clock beeps and the astronaut floats out of her sleeping pod She squirts water droplets from a tube and brushes her teeth Then she spits the toothpaste into a towel After breakfast she will conduct an experiment in the space station's research lab But first she stops to look out a window Earth floats like a pale blue ball far below After two years of training for her mission she is excited to finally be in space Astronaut Ellen Ochoa looks out a window of the International Space Station 2002 in
