Spies and shuttles
Subtitle: NASA's secret relationships with the DoD and CIA / James David
Publisher: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780813049991
Subjects: Government policy; National security; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States; Astronautics; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. Department of Defense; Military Astronautics; History
Description: Author James David tells the inside story of how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, performing covert operations such as flying over sensitive areas, launching secret telecommunications satellites, and missile launch testing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Forging close ties in NASA's early years; title: NASA, the CIA, and foreign intelligence during the Apollo era; title: Expanding interaction in old and new areas; title: Restrictions on remote sensing from space; title: Concerns over human spaceflight program experiments and lunar and astronomy program technologies; title: The shuttle : NASA's radically new partnership with the national security agencies; title: The national security agencies abandon the shuttle; title: NASA's applications satellites and national security requirements; title: Conclusion.