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Exploring the Unknown - Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume IV: Accessing Space (Paperback)
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Exploring the Unknown - Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume IV: Accessing Space (Paperback)
Series: NASA History
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One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has
been the movement of humanity into space with machines and people.
The underpinnings of that movement-why it took the shape it did;
which individuals and organizations were involved; what factors
drove a particular choice of scientific objectives and technologies
to be used; and the political, economic, managerial, and
international contexts in which the events of the space age
unfolded-are all important ingredients of this epoch transition
from an Earthbound to a spacefaring people. This desire to
understand the development of spaceflight in the United States
sparked this documentary history series. The extension of human
activity into outer space has been accompanied by a high degree of
self-awareness of its historical significance. Few large-scale
activities have been as extensively chronicled so closely to the
time they actually occurred. Many of those who were directly
involved were quite conscious that they were making history, and
they kept full records of their activities. Because most of the
activity in outer space was carried out under government
sponsorship, it was accompanied by the documentary record required
of public institutions, and there has been a spate of official and
privately written histories of most major aspects of space
achievement to date. When top leaders considered what course of
action to pursue in space, their deliberations and decisions often
were carefully put on the record. There is, accordingly, no lack of
material for those who aspire to understand the origins and
evolution of U.S. space policies and programs. This reality forms
the rationale for this series. Precisely because there is so much
historical material available on space matters, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) decided in 1988 that it
would be extremely useful to have a selective collection of many of
the seminal documents related to the evolution of the U.S. civilian
space program that was easily available to scholars and the
interested public. While recognizing that much space activity has
taken place under the sponsorship of the Department of Defense and
other national security organizations, within the U.S. private
sector, and in other countries around the world, NASA felt that
there would be lasting value in a collection of documentary
material primarily focused on the evolution of the U.S.
government's civil space program, most of which has been carried
out since 1958 under the agency's auspices. As a result, the NASA
History Office contracted with the Space Policy Institute of George
Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs to
prepare such a collection. This is the fourth volume in the
documentary history series; two additional ones detailing
programmatic developments with respect to space science and human
spaceflight will follow. The documents selected for inclusion in
this volume are presented in four major chapters, each covering a
particular aspect of access to space and the manner in which it has
developed over time. These chapters focus on the evolution toward
the giant Saturn V rocket, the development of the Space Shuttle,
space transportation commercialization, and future space
transportation possibilities. Volume I in this series covered the
antecedents to the U.S. space program, as well as the origins and
evolution of U.S. space policy and of NASA as an institution.
Volume II addressed the relations between the U.S. civil space
program and the space activities of other countries, between the
U.S. civil program and national security space and military
efforts, and between NASA and industry and academic institutions.
Volume III provided documents on satellite communications, remote
sensing, and the economic of space applications. As mentioned
above, the remaining two volumes of the series will cover space
science and human spaceflight.
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