"Martin H. Greenberg - Space Stations" - читать интересную книгу автора (Greenberg Martin H)

REDUNDANCY
by Alan Dean Foster
DANCERS OF THE GATE
by James Cobb
MIKEYS
by Robert J. Sawyer
THE FRANCHISE
by Julie E. Czerneda
FOLLOW THE SKY
by Pamela Sargent
AURIGA'S STREETCAR
 by Jean Rabe
FALLING STAR
by Brendan DuBois
COUNTDOWN
by Russell Davis
SERPENT ON THE STATION
by Michael A. Stackpole
FIRST CONTACT CAFE
by Irene Radford
ORBITAL BASE FEAR
by Eric Kotani
BLACK HOLE STATION
by Jack Williamson
STATION SPACES
by Gregory Benford
INTRODUCTION
by John Heifers
It's amazing what the human race can accomplish when we put our
collective minds to something. Whether it's exploration, fighting disease,
inventing new technology, or changing society, mankind can be an awesome
power when it chooses to be.
Consider space exploration, for example. While scientists have been
studying the stars for centuries, getting a man to walk among them has been
quite a different matter. As the study of our universe goes, it is one of the
most recent fields of scientific endeavor, primarily because of the advances
in technology that have made it feasible. Since the launch of the first
satellite by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, the United States and the
rest of the world have been looking to the skies, and the universe beyond, as
the ultimate last frontier.
And what an incredible forty-seven years it's been. Since the first space
race between Russia and the United States, the world has seen men land on
the Moon, the first unmanned exploration of the surface of Mars, China join
the other space faring nations, and a renewed interest in the vast galaxy
beyond our own planet.
Along with this activity comes new ways to study and explore space.
From the Hubble space telescope to the Voyager and Galileo deep space
probes, we have pushed farther and farther past the boundaries of what we
once knew.
 One of the best ways to do this is right in our own backyard, so to speak.