To slip the surly bonds
Subtitle: NASA the shuttle disasters and the demise of the USmanned space program
Publisher: createspace
Published: 2014
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 472
Description: This book enters into the world of NASA and tells the story of not just why the shuttle disasters  happened, but exposes NASA' s
Inner workings.  NASA has been gutted by various presidential administrations ,Congress has as also had a field day with budget cuts,devastating the program with pork barrel projects and confusion regarding US and its place in the space program.NASA,too has been its own worst enemy due to static, bureaucratic way of doing internal business.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 what is NASA' s real purpose; title: Chapter 2 the star of the space age; title: Chapter 3 Back at the Whie House; title: Chapter 4 Start of the space transportation system; title: Chapter 5 NASA centers; title: Chapter6 the shuttle begins; title: Chapter7  the  Orbiter tastes the air for the first time.; title: Chapter 8 Painful losses; title: Chapter 9 When the problem really begins; title: Chapter10. Columbia the "grey lady"; title: Chapter 11 The manned spaceflight program