NASA and the Space Industry Paperback / softback
by Joan Lisa (Johns Hopkins University) Bromberg
Part of the New Series in NASA History series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 11 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:19/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780801865329
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 11 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:19/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801865329
