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Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice (New Series in NASA History) (Hardcover)
by Howard E. McCurdy (Author) "Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space?," John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, asked in..." (more)

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Hardcover: 290 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (1 Aug 1990)
Language English
ISBN-10: 080184004X
ISBN-13: 978-0801840043
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.9 x 2.7 cm
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The author is a professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, DC. The events which led up to the decision (1984) to build a permanently occupied space station in low earth orbit provide his primary subject matter in the present monograph, but the author's deeper interest has to do with the politics of Big Science. The story is a

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"Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space?," John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, asked in the spring of 1961. Read the first page

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