Lost in Space The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age

Name: Lost in Space The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age
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ISBN: 9780375727733

ISBN-10: 0375727736

ISBN-13: 9780375727733

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Authors: Greg Klerkx

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The daring, revolutionary NASA that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon has lost its meteoric vision, says journalist and space enthusiast Greg Klerkx. NASA, he contends, has devolved from a pioneer of space exploration into a factionalized bureaucracy focused primarily on its own survival. And as a result, humans haven’t ventured beyond Earth orbit for three decades. Klerkx argues that after its wildly successful Apollo program, NASA clung fiercely to the spotlight by creating a government-sheltered monopoly with a few Big Aerospace companies. Although committed in theory to supporting commercial spaceflight, in practice it smothered vital private-sector innovation. In striking descriptions of…

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List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.14" wide x 7.98" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Greg Klerkx is a former senior manager of the SETI Institute, an independent space exploration and research institution based in California's Silicon Valley. Trained as a journalist, he won numerous news-writing awards and now divides his time between London and San Francisco. Beyond the Blue is his first book.



Prologue: Lost in Space


The Price of "Peace"


One Giant Leap


Escape Velocity


Back to the Future


The Belly of the Beast


Advance Reservations Required


Business in a Vacuum


Welcome to the Revolution


The Emperor of Mars


Mars on Earth


Lighting Out for the Territory


Reference Notes


Acknowledgments


Index