International Space Station

John Catchpole is a freelance writer specialising in human spaceflight history. In addition to co-authoring Creating the International Space Station, he is also the author of Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme and has published over 150 magazine articles on the subject of human spaceflight and spaceflight history, including many in Spaceflight, a monthly magazine published by the British Interplanetary Society.

From the reviews: "This new volume picks up the story with the launch of STS-108 which delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the station in December 2001. ... given readers a good, detailed account of the missions and the construction activity, and the various problems inevitably encountered, which the crews and their support teams on Earth overcame. There are a good number of photos from the missions ... . Several appendices give a comprehensive list of acronyms used ... . All in all, a useful book ... ." (David Maclennan, Liftoff, Issue 260, November-December, 2010)

• Early construction.- The ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force.- Commencing the Integrated Truss Structure.- Triumph and tragedy.- Recovery and restructuring.- Project Constellation.- Postscript.