Abstract:
This is a true story about the funny side of building the International Space Station. The story is told around actual quotes from real people that accurately, and often elegantly, describe what management would call a ‘character-building’ situation. The characters in this book are stand-ins. The quotes are real. Technically and managerially, the International Space Station was a tremendously ambitious project. It broke new ground in the fields of politics and bureaucracy. All the more magnificent then stands the triumph of those individuals who overcame all the obstacles and built it.