NASA and the Space Industry

Joan Lisa Bromberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2001
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6532-9 (ISBN)

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Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them. In NASA and the Space Industry, Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.

Joan Lisa Bromberg is a visiting scholar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Department at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source and The Laser in America, 1950-1970.

Preface
Chapter 1. Partners in Space
Chapter 2. Legacies
Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Companies
Chapter 4. The Space Shuttle
Chapter 5. Space and the Marketplace
Chapter 6. In the Wake of the Challenger
Chapter 7. Trends in NASA-Industry Relations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.1.2001
Reihe/Serie	New Series in NASA History
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-8018-6532-8 / 0801865328
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-6532-9 / 9780801865329
Zustand	Neuware