Great (Unfulfilled) Expectations: To Boldly Go Where No Social Scientist and Historian Have Gone Before

摘要

This paper examines a NASA-funded American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) project undertaken in the mid-1960s to understand why lofty goals existed, (i.e., to develop a system for the continuing monitoring of important effects of space efforts, together with a reporting of these effects in appropriate terms to the appropriate agency,) what the project, (i.e., a NASA grant to conduct a study of long-range national problems related to the development of the NASA program) accomplished, and where the humanities and social sciences stand in relation to the space program some four decades later.