Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. Volume I. Organizing for Exploration

摘要

The documents selected for inclusion in this volume are presented in four major sections, each covering a particular aspect of the evolution of US. space policies and programs. Those sections address: the antecedents to the U.S. space program; the origins of U.S. space policy in the Eisenhower era; the evolution of U.S. space policies and plans; and the organization of the civilian space effort. A second volume of this work will contain documents arranged in four sections addressing specific relations with other organizations: the NASA/industry/university nexus; civil-military space cooperation; international space cooperation; and NASA, commercialization in space, and communications satellites. A third volume will describe programmatic developments: human spaceflight; space science; Earth observation programs; and space transportation.