Single Stage to Orbit Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry |
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| Author:
| Butrica, Andrew J. |
| Series title: | New Series in NASA History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8134-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2004 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed--not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport--but in a vision of space militarization and commercialization that would appear settled United States policy in the early twenty-first century.
Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed--not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport--but in a vision of space militarization and commercialization that would appear settled United States policy in the early twenty-first century.