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NASA At 50 - Interviews With NASA's Senior Leadership (Paperback)
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NASA At 50 - Interviews With NASA's Senior Leadership (Paperback)
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The 50th anniversary of NASA on 1 October 2008 found an agency in
the midst of deep transition. In the closing year of the presidency
of George W. Bush, only a month before the presidential election
and in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, the Agency was
implementing a new Vision for Space Exploration intended to return
humans to the Moon, to proceed onward to Mars, and to study the
cosmos beyond. All of this was to be done not with new funding, but
by ramping down the Space Shuttle Program that had been the
centerpiece of human spaceflight for three decades and ramping up a
new program known collectively as Constellation. The immediate
elements of Constellation were a new launch vehicle, Ares I; an
"Apollo on steroids" human capsule dubbed Orion; and the lunar
lander Altair. Huge decisions were being made that would likely
affect the Agency for decades to come. In short, a new era of
spaceflight was dawning-or at least that was NASA's fondest hope.
It was in this milieu that the History Division at NASA
Headquarters commissioned oral history interviews to be undertaken
with NASA senior management. This volume is the result and provides
a snapshot of the thinking of NASA senior leadership on the
occasion of its 50th anniversary and in the midst of these sea
changes. It is all the more valuable from an historical point of
view because of the large changes that have again taken place since
the 50th anniversary. Since the interviews could not be done
instantaneously, this volume is the result of conversations
recorded during 2007 and 2008. The interviews were facilitated by
Rebecca Wright and Sandra Johnson of the Johnson Space Center (JSC)
in Houston, and the whole program was under my guidance as the NASA
Chief Historian at Headquarters in Washington, DC. Recordings and
transcripts are available at JSC and Headquarters and are now part
of the Agency's considerable oral history efforts of the past
several decades.
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