""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Chapter I. Introduction: The Space Infrastructure""; ""Chapter II. Early Space Station and Platform Planning""; ""II.1 Skylab""; ""Skylab Description""; ""Significance of Skylab""; ""Skylab Recommendations""; ""Physiological Findings""; ""Habitability Considerations""; ""Contamination Control As a System""; ""Skylab Subsystems Operational Experience""; ""II.2 The Soviet Salyut Space Station Program""; ""First-Generation Salyut Stations""; ""Second-Generation Salyut Stations""
""II.3 Space Telescope: The Proto-Space Platform""""Origin of the Space Telescope""; ""Science with the Space Telescope""; ""The Technology of the Space Telescope""; ""The Space Telescope Science Institute""; ""Space Telescope as a Space Platform""; ""II.4 The European Reusable Space Platforms SPAS and EURECA""; ""Reusable Platforms""; ""The SPAS-01 Demonstration Platform""; ""The EURECA Platform""; ""Chapter III. Introduction: Space Station and Platform Roles in Supporting Future Space Endeavors""; ""III.1 Astronomy and the Space Station""; ""Astronomy As a Science""
""Current Array of Astronomy Missions""""Future Astronomy Programs""; ""The Requirements of Astronomical Missions""; ""Unique Aspects of the Space Station""; ""Potential New Astronomical Missions""; ""III.2 The Space Station Polar Platform: Integrating Research and Operational Missions""; ""Solar-Terrestrial Interactions""; ""The Earth's Atmosphere and Meteorology""; ""The Oceans and Coasts""; ""The Solid Earth and Vegetation""; ""The Polar Platform as a Vantage Point""; ""Communications and a System of Global Services""; ""Platform Servicing""; ""International Participation""
""III.3 Planetary Exploration in the Space Station Era""""The Objectives and Methods of Planetary Exploration""; ""The SSEC Core Planetary Program""; ""The SSEC Augmented Planetary Program""; ""Planetary Science On Board the Space Station""; ""III.4 The Next Steps in Satellite Communications""; ""Space Stations and Platforms""; ""Space Station Communication Roles""; ""The Space Platform""; ""Distribution Satellites""; ""Refurbishment""; ""III.5 The Potential of Materials Processing Using the Space Environment""; ""The Role of Gravity in Materials Processing""
""A Short History of Materials Processing in Space""""The EOS Project: Electrophoresis Operations in Space""; ""Space Stations and the EOS Program""; ""Realizing the Potential of Materials Processing in Space""; ""Chapter IV. Space Station and Space Platform Concepts: A Historical Review""; ""Introduction: The Pioneers""; ""Early Postwar Thinking""; ""The Earliest Years: Planning a Post-Mercury Space Program""; ""Space Station Plans during the 1960's""; ""Manned Orbital Research Laboratory""; ""Other Space Station Studies""; ""Management Attention to a Space Station""
