The space telescope : a study of NASA, science, technology, and politics

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The space telescope : a study of NASA, science, technology, and politics

Robert W. Smith ; with contributions by Paul A. Hanle, Robert H. Kargon, Joseph N. Tatarewicz

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 425-469

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by imperfections in the construction of its lenses and by solar panels that caused it to shudder when moving from daylight to darkness. Smith analyses how the processes of Big Science, especially those involving the government's funding process for large-scale projects, contributed to those failures. He reveals the astonishingly complex interactions that took place among the scientific community, government and industry and describes the great range of personalities and forces - scientific, technical, political, social, institutional and economic - that played roles in the Space Telescope's history.

目次

  • Preface to paperback edition
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dreams of telescopes
  • 2. Building a program
  • 3. Astronomers, industry and money
  • 4. Selling the large space telescope
  • 5. Saving the space telescope
  • 6. Making an institute
  • 7. Up and running
  • 8. Problems arise
  • 9. Closing in
  • 10. Reflections
  • Afterword
  • Appendices
  • Short essay on sources
  • Notes
  • Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA07883141
  • ISBN
    • 0521266343
  • LCCN
    89000707
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge [England] ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xviii, 478 p.
  • 大きさ
    27 cm
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