Defining NASA

"Defining NASA looks at the turbulent history of the space agency and the political controversies behind its funding. W.D. Kay examines the agency's activities and behavior by taking into account not only the political climate, but also the changes in how public officials conceptualize space policy. He explores what policymakers envisioned when they created the agency in 1958, why support for the Apollo program was so strong in the 1960s only to fade away in such a relatively short period of time, what caused NASA and the space program to languish throughout most of the 1970s only to reemerge in the 1980s, and, finally, what role the agency plays today."--Jacket.

המשפט הראשון: Since the opening of the Space Age nearly 50 years ago, the U.S. government has spent close to $1 trillion on space-related activities.

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

State University of New York Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

247

ISBN

9780791463826

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata