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Subtitle: the crippling of America's space program
By: Donald A. Beattie.
Series: Apogee space books -- 59
Publisher: Apogee Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781894959599
Subjects: United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration; International Space Station; Astronautics -- Government policy -- United States; Aerospace industries -- United States -- Costs; Outer Space -- Exploration -- Government policy -- United States
Description: Donald A. Beattie served on the Space Station Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1994. He recounts the evolution of this troubled program from the perspective of a participant and close observer who worked side by side with many of the early NASA Space Station managers. He pulls no punches in describing the political and managerial conflicts that resulted in severely compromising a major international program that may never achieve the research goals envisioned when first announced by President Reagan in 1984.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.