NASA and the space industry
"In NASA and the Space Industry Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects. And she describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999
History
x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780801860508, 9780801865329, 0801860504, 0801865328
40179557
1. Partners in Space
2. Legacies
3. A Tale of Two Companies
4. The Space Shuttle
5. Space and the Marketplace
6. In the Wake of the Challenger
7. Trends in NASA-Industry Relations