NASA and the space industry
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NASA and the space industry
（New series in NASA history）（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
J. Hopkins University Press, 2000
Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Partners in Space
Chapter 2. Legacies
Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Companies
Chapter 4. The Space Shuttle
Chapter 5. Space and the Marketplace
Chapter 6. In the Wake of the Challenger
Chapter 7. Trends in NASA-Industry Relations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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