Introduction |
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Acronyms and Abbreviations |
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Section 1 Motivations for Spaceflight |
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Chapter 1 Seeking Newer Worlds: An Historical Context for Space Exploration |
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Chapter 2 Compelling Rationales for Spaceflight? History and the Search for Relevance |
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Section 2 Human and Robotic Exploration |
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Chapter 3 Observations on the Robotic versus Human Issue in Spaceflight |
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Chapter 4 Human-Machine Issues in the Soviet Space Program |
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Chapter 5 Human and Machine in the History of Spaceflight |
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Section 3 NASA and External Relations |
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Chapter 6 NASA and the Aerospace Industry: Critical Issues and Research Prospects |
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Chapter 7 NASA and the Department of Defense: Enduring Themes in Three Key Areas |
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Chapter 8 Technology, Foreign Policy, and International Cooperation in Space |
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Section 4 Access to Space |
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Chapter 9 "A Failure of National Leadership": Why No Replacement for the Space Shuttle? |
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Chapter 10 Reusable Launch Vehicles or Expendable Launch Vehicles? A Perennial Debate |
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Chapter 11 Changing NASA: The Challenges of Organizational System Failures |
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Chapter 12 Accidents, Engineering, and History at NASA, 1967-2003 |
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Chapter 13 Institutional Issues for Continued Space Exploration: High-Reliability Systems Across Many Operational Generations-Requisites for Public Credibility |
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Section 6 Space History: State of the Art |
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Chapter 14 American Space History: Legacies, Questions, and Opportunities for Future Research |
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Chapter 15 The History and Historiography of National Security Space |
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Chapter 16 Critical Theory as a Toolbox: Suggestions for Space History's Relationship to the History Subdisciplines |
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Chapter 17 Space Artifacts: Are They Historical Evidence? |
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Afterword: Community and Explanation in Space History (?) |
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The NASA History Series |
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About the Authors |
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Index |
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