The documents selected for inclusion in this volume are presented in four major sections, each covering a particular aspect of the evolution of US. space policies and programs. Those sections address: the antecedents to the U.S. space program; the origins of U.S. space policy in the Eisenhower era; the evolution of U.S. space policies and plans; and the organization of the civilian space effort. A second volume of this work will contain documents arranged in four sections addressing specific relations with other organizations: the NASA/industry/university nexus; civil-military space cooperation; international space cooperation; and NASA, commercialization in space, and communications satellites. A third volume will describe programmatic developments: human spaceflight; space science; Earth observation programs; and space transportation.
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. Volume I. Organizing for Exploration
1995
820 pages
Report
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English