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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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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
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History
  • Challenger (Spacecraft)
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Space vehicle accidents > United States
  • Space vehicle accidents
  • Geschichte
  • Raumfahrt
  • Astronautique > États-Unis > 1960-1986
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
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