Автор: J. Logsdon
Название: After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2015
ISBN: 978-1137438522
Серия: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,8 mb
Страниц: 356
The decision to develop a space shuttle was the culmination of the drama of post-Apollo space policymaking. The decision carried with it NASA's intent, once the shuttle entered operations, to seek presidential support for developing a space station launched in separate elements by the shuttle and assembled in orbit. Those two activities— developing and flying the space shuttle, then developing, assembling, and utilizing the space station—have dominated U.S. human space flight efforts for four decades after the last American astronaut left the Moon in December 1972. As Apollo 17 lifted off the lunar surface on December 14, 1972, President Nixon issued a statement saying "this may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon." By the decisions he made between 1969 and 1972, Richard Nixon ensured that his forecast would come true.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Overture
Act 1 No More Apollos
Chapter 1
Richard Nixon and Apollo 11
Chapter 2
Setting the Post-Apollo Stage
Chapter 3
After the Moon, Mars?
Chapter 4
Space and National Priorities
Chapter 5
The Nixon Space Doctrine
Chapter 6
The End of the Apollo Era
Intermission
Act 2 What Next?
Chapter 7
A New Cast of Characters
Chapter 8
The Space Shuttle Takes Center Stage
Chapter 9
National Security Requirements Drive Shuttle Design
Chapter 10 A Time of Transitions
Chapter 11
A Confused Path Forward
Chapter 12
Debating a Shuttle Decision
Chapter 13
Which Shuttle to Approve?
Chapter 14 A “Space Clipper”
Finale
Epilogue
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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