num_pages: 272
description:        Setting the tone for the collection,        NASA chief historian Roger D. Launius and Howard McCurdy maintain that        the nation's presidency had become imperial by the mid-1970s and that        supporters of the space program had grown to find relief in such a presidency,        which they believed could help them obtain greater political support and        funding. Subsequent chapters explore the roles and political leadership,        vis-à-vis government policy, of presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy,        Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. 
language: English
title: Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
titlecomplete: Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics, Space
ratings_count: 23
publisher: University of Illinois Press