From virtually the beginning of the twentieth century, those
interested in the human exploration of space have viewed as central
to that endeavor the building of an Earth-orbital space station
that would serve as the jumping-off point to the Moon and the
planets. Always, space exploration supporters believed, a
permanently occupied space station was a necessary outpost in the
new frontier of space. The more technically minded recognized that
once humans had achieved Earth orbit about 250 miles above the
surface---the presumed location of any space station---the vast
majority of the atmosphere and the gravity well would have been
conquered, and then human beings were about halfway to anywhere
they might want to go. Space station advocates also recognized that
the scientific and technological challenge of building an
Earth-orbital space station was daunting and that pooling the
resources of many of the spacefaring nations of the world would
maximize the probabilities of success. Thus, when the space station
project was born in the in the mid-1980s, it almost immediately
became an international program. This monograph describes the
process of conceptualizing the international partnership and
crafting its contours.
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