Reinventing NASA : human space flight, bureaucracy, and politics / Roger Handberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handberg, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States.

Astronautics--Political aspects--United States.

Astronautics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namely through human space flight. Pursuit of such a goal has led the agency to persist in certain activities even when they conflict with the wishes of Congress and the President. Recent changes in the international environment, changes that began well before September 11, 2001, have brought the military back into the field of human space flight, a situation that holds certain hazards for NASA since the military is more powerful politically. Dramatic ch

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 NASA and Defining the Dream; 2 In the Beginning; 3 An Imploding Agency: Post-Challenger Blues; 4 Inadvertent Political Catalyst: The Space Station Freedom; 5 Fixing Space Launch; 6 ""Faster, Better, Cheaper?""; 7 Reinventing Government: Efficiency Comes to NASA; 8 Organizational Change as Goal-Directed Behavior; 9 The Future of NASA; Afterword: Columbia and the Future; Appendix: Outlays for Space; Selected References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.

ISBN:

9798216006770

9786610348916

9781280348914

1280348917

9780313016134

0313016135

OCLC:

57379964