Escaping Gravity (eBook)

My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Lori Garver (Autor)

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2022
304 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-773-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age.Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls "e;space pirates."e; Their quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s.As the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature. She was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts. The result: more efficiency and greater progress.Including insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed to become the envy of the world and is ushering in a new space age, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful change.Praise for Escaping Gravity"e;Former NASA official Lori Garver offers a front-row seat to the decades-long struggles within and among space bureaucrats and space billionaires. Bring popcorn, as you bear witness to an untold slice of space history."e; -Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier"e;We are living at the most exciting time in space exploration since the Apollo era, in part because the world's largest space agency, NASA, got around to trying something new, the funding of commercial crews. Lori Garver tells it like it is . . . or was for a woman effecting change at NASA despite men of the military industrial complex-and their cost-plus contracts. It wasn't rocket science, it was much harder than that. Don't take my word(s) for it; read this book."e; -Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society"e;A scathing memoir that shows the ugly side of NASA while offering hope for a better future for the space agency."e; -Kirkus Reviews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2022
• Vorwort: Walter Isaacson
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: aerodynamics • Aerospace • aircraft design & construction • Ames research center • Apollo • Artemis • Astronaut • astronautics • astrophysics • aviation history • biden • Bill Nelson • Blue Origin • Boeing • Bush • Buzz Aldrin • challenger • Challenger explosion • Charlie Bolden • Clinton • Colonialization • commercial space flight • Cosmos • Daniel saul goldin • Elon Musk • Engineering Research • Extraterrestrial • Falcon 1 • female astronaut • feminist theory • First woman • Glass Ceiling • Gravity • Hidden Figures • Hubble • Infrastructure • Jeff Bezos • Jet Propulsion Laboratory • John Glenn • Johnson Space Center • Kennedy Space Center • liftoff • Lockheed Martin • lori garver • man on the Moon • Mars mission • Mars Rover • Military Industrial Complex • Moon • Moonshot • Nasa • National Space Society • Neil Armstrong • Neil deGrasse Tyson • Netflix documentary • Obama • Orbit • paul allen • Pelosi • Physics • Propulsion technology • return to space • Richard Branson • Rocket • roscosmos • Sally Ride • Satellites • Saturn • scott kelly • Sean O’Keefe • space barons • space billionaires • space council • space exploration • space flight • Space Force • space launch • space pirates • Space race • Space research • Space Science • Spaceship • space shuttle • SpaceX • Taxes • Tesla • Transportation Industry • Trump • Twitter • virgin galactic • Voyager • Women & Business • women in politics • women in science • Women in STEM
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-773-3 / 1635767733
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-773-5 / 9781635767735