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The Space Station Decision Paperback - 2007

by Howard E. McCurdy


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Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous task for bureaucrats. The Space Station Decision examines the history of this controversial initiative and illustrates how bureaucracy shapes public policy. Using primary documents and interviews, Howard E. McCurdy describes the events that led up to the 1984 decision to build a permanently occupied, international space station in low Earth orbit. As he follows the trail of the space station proposal through the labyrinth of White House policy review, McCurdy explains the evolution of the presidential budget review process, the breakup of the cabinet system, the proliferation of subcabinets and Executive Office interagency, the involvement of White House staff in framing issues for presidential review, and the role of bureaucracy in advancing administration legislation on Capitol Hill. Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to build the space shuttle, McCurdy shows how public officials responsible for long-term science and technology policy maneuvered in a political system that demanded short-term flexibility.

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"Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space?," John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, asked in the spring of 1961.

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  • Title The Space Station Decision
  • Author Howard E. McCurdy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date 2007-10-01
  • ISBN 9780801887499 / 0801887496
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.71 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.80 cm)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 353.008

About the author

Howard E. McCurdy is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and the author of Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program; Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program; and the coauthor of Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel, all published by Johns Hopkins.

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