Table of Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Beginning -- Iowa City, November 1, 1991 -- Mir Space Station, November 1, 1991 -- Meran, Munich, November 2, 1991 -- Moscow, November 2, 1991 -- Munich, November 2, 1991 -- Moscow, November 1, 1991 -- 2. Background -TheYears Before -- The Midnight Sun Workshop in Tromsø -- The First Capri Workshop on Dusty Plasmas -- Plasmas -- Dusty Plasmas -- Plasma Crystals -- Extraterrestrial Physics -- Melting Observed with Individual Particles -- 3. The Dawn of the Space Age -- Barbados -- London, Bonn, Munich -- 4. Moscow -The First Meeting -- A Butterfly Effect -- Moscow - Memories of a Visit in 1984 (Gregor Morfill) -- Moscow Again -- 5. Space -The Early Efforts -- The Early German Effort: First Parabolic Flights then Rocket Experiments -- The First Rocket Experiment -- The Soul Searching Begins -- Vladimir Fortov in Munich -- The Early Russian Effort: Experiments on Mir (PK-1 and PK-2) -- The Christmas Experiment -- Russian Space Programme after the USSR Dissolved (a Flashback) -- December 1991 -- March 17, 1992 -- The International Space Station - How Did it Start? -- The ISS Crew -- 6. Space - Russia and Germany Join Hands -- The Russian Offer -- Making Research Happen -- How DLR Viewed this -- 7. Expanding and Stabilising the Research -- 8. Twists and Turns of Events -- May 5, 1998 Proposal to DLR for an Experiment on the Mir Space Station -- The Hole -- The Making of PKE -- NASAWants to Stop PKE -- NASAWants to Stop PKE Again -- The Pump -- 9. Meeting and Training the Cosmonauts -- 10. Baikonur -The Russian Spaceport -- Baikonur, The Town and The Spaceport: Some History -- Visit to the Spaceport: Back to the Story -- Soyuz to the Launch Pad -- Unscheduled Meeting with the First ISS Crew -- Launch to the ISS -- Lift-off -- Life on the ISS -- Some Data about the ISS.

Daily Routine -- Hygiene -- Food and Drink -- Exercise -- 11. Launch of PK-3 -- PK-3 on Board the ISS -- Renaming PK-3 to PKE-Nefedov -- 12. Korolev -The Forbidden City -- Renaming Kaliningrad to Korolev -- The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre -- Cosmonaut Training -- 13. PK-3Plus - How it Began -- A Conspiratorial Meeting in a Moscow Hotel -- 14. Some Science Results -- Baturin Effect -- Crystallisation and Melting at the Atomic Level -- Phase Separation -The Oil-Water Problem -- Electrorheology -What is it? -- Bubbles and Drops at the Smallness Limit -- Solitary Waves (Tsunamis) at the Individual Particle Level -- The Origin of Turbulence -A Single Particle View -- 15. Some More Science Results -- Dynamics of Crystal Defects -- Two-dimensional Melting of a Plasma Crystal -- Converging Nano-flows -- Mach Cones -- Heat Conduction in Membranes -- 16. Plasma Crystal -The Most Successful Space Station Experiment -- 17. Recollections from the Cosmonauts -- From Yuri Baturin's Diary -- From Mikhail Turin's Report on the ISS after Completing Another Session of the Plasma Crystal 3 Experiment -- From an Interview with Mikhail Turin by Yuri Baturin -- A Cosmonaut is not just a Lab Assistant! -- Talgat Musabaev Talking to Gregor Morfill -A Recollection -- 18. The Future -- PK-4 (Launch in 2014) -- PlasmaLab -The More Distant Future -- 19. Some Probing Questions -- 20. Applications -- Expected Applications -- Particle control - clean plasma processing -- Particle control and growth - new solar cells -- Unexpected Applications -- Some facts about bacteria -- Plasma hygiene -- Hospital hygiene -- Epidemics, pandemics and global hygiene -- Food hygiene -- Bottled beverages -- Eggs and poultry -- Plasma medicine -- Secondary infections -- Wound healing -- Skin diseases and injuries -- Cancer -- What can plasma do? -- Agriculture -- 21. Final Remarks.

Appendix 1. Pictures from Space and Earth -- The Construction of the ISS (Photos courtesy of NASA) -- Astronauts and Cosmonauts -The Infinite Freedom of Space -- Return to Earth -The Shuttle and Soyuz -- Cosmonauts Lecturing in the Plasma Crystal Workshops -- Celebrating Successful Experiments is Always Great -- Appendix 2. The PKE-Nefedov Team -- The Russian Side -- The German Side -- Appendix 3. List of Mir and ISS Plasma Crystal Missions -- References -- Glossary.