Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station
Threadmarks: Part 27: Enterprise acquires an understudy, Galileo. Mir-II acquires a new lab, Curie. Hubble comes to stay.
Boldly Going Part 27
With the launch of Minerva 3 in 2001, NASA had established the first of a new generation of human outposts beyond Earth orbit. However, it wasn’t the only new outpost launched that year. After many delays, Russia finally launched the first modules of Mir-II. Funded by...