David M. Harland
Contributor
Space historian and freelance writer, Glasgow, Scotland. Author of Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions; Jupiter Odyssey: The Story of NASA's Galileo Mission; and others.
Primary Contributions (19)
Space station, an artificial structure placed in orbit and having the pressurized enclosure, power, supplies, and environmental systems necessary to support human habitation for extended periods. Depending on its configuration, a space station can serve as a base for a variety of activities. These…
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Publications (2)
The Story of Space Station Mir (Springer Praxis Books)
* Details how a succession of Salyut space stations led to the development of Mir.
* Depicts Mirâs assembly piece by piece, in space, between 1982 and 1996.
* Describes how Mir became an international research laboratory.
* Advises how Mir technology went on to form the âcore modulesâ of the ISS.
* The definitive account of Mir throughout its life through to de-orbiting in March 2001.
Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 in terms of what was discovered, and how over the next several missions the program was progressively geared up to enable the final three missions each to spend three...
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