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  • Island in the Sky: Building the International Space Station by Piers Bizony. London: Aurum Press Ltd, 1996.
Though out of date (as anything concerning the ISS tends to be within months of publication), this well-illustrated volume boasts a wealth of detail about the largest engineering project ever undertaken in space.
  • This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age by William E. Burrows. New York: The Modern Library, 1999.
A finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History, this is a comprehensive history of humankind's efforts to travel into space.
  • Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
This hefty but accessible book chronicles the harrowing experiences, including a fire and a mid-space collision, that two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut endured aboard the Russian space station Mir.
  • International Space Station: A Space Mission by Michael D. Cole. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1999.
Part of the series "Countdown to Space," this volume for students answers questions from why we need an International Space Station to who will biuld it and how it will be built.
  • Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature by Gary Westfahl. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1996.

Westfahl takes a look back at SF visions of space stations, beginning with Edward Everett Hale's accidentally inhabited artificial satellite in his 1869 "The Brick Moon."

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