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Prescription for disaster
- Title
- Prescription for disaster / Joseph J. Trento with reporting and editing by Susan B. Trento.
- Author
- Trento, Joseph John, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Crown, ©1987.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Use in library | TL789.8.U5 T74 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Follows NASA through seven presidential administrations. Examines how political decisions effected its achievements and technological competence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography p. 296-304.
- Contents
- The great space race -- The Kennedy years -- Shooting the moon -- Flight of the sun god -- Shuttle -- The dark side of space -- Carter -- The man who paid the piper -- Fly now, pay later -- The contractors and the congress -- The politics of space -- Death of a dream.
- ISBN
- 0517564157
- 9780517564158
- LCCN
- 86024134
- OCLC
- ocm14378065
- 14378065
- SCSB-9334038
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library