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Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, Date: 2003. PResumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. 544 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The Joseph Henry Press is an imprint of the National Academies PRess and was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. Charged with the ever-present potential for danger and occasionally punctuated by terrible moments of disaster, the history of space exploration has been keenly dramatic. The recent disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia was a sad but certain reminder that space travel is an extraordinarily dangerous occupation. Oddly enough, it often takes a tragic accident to remind us that we still have a presence in space. In the decades between triumph and tragedy we tend to ignore the fact that there have been scores of space pioneers who have risked their lives to explore our solar system. Indeed, the International Space Station is sometimes referred to as "Alpha, " a moniker that implies that it is our first real permanent presence in space. But this notion is frowned upon by the Russians--and for good reason. Prior to the construction of the controversial International Space Station, a host of daring Russian cosmonauts, and a smaller number of intrepid American astronauts, were living in space for months, some of them for over a year. In this definitive ...