NASA and the Space Industry by Joan Lisa Bromberg

NASA and the Space Industry by Joan Lisa Bromberg

Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them. 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 describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.

As well as being an interesting read, NASA and the Space Industry demonstrates the effect that lack of clarity in space policy can have on the development of private sector space capabilitySpaceflight A much-needed overview of a subject of great importance. -- Erik P. Rau Enterprise and Society

Joan Lisa Bromberg is a visiting scholar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Department at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source and The Laser in America, 1950-1970.

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ISBN 13	9780801865329
ISBN 10	0801865328
Title	NASA and the Space Industry
Author	Joan Lisa Bromberg
Series	New Series In Nasa History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2001-01-19
Number of pages	264
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