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Can Democracies Fly in Space? - The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,783
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Can Democracies Fly in Space? - The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program (Hardcover, New): W. Kay

Can Democracies Fly in Space? - The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program (Hardcover, New)

W. Kay

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Over the last two decades, the image of the U.S. space program has become seriously tarnished. Its problems have ranged from massive cost overruns to serious program delays to catastrophic mission failures. The space program, once the most prominent symbol of American scientific and technological preeminence, now seems but one more example of government bumbling, extravagance, and waste. In this study, Kay examines the recent problems of the space program and finds that NASA's failures, like its earlier successes, are ultimately traceable to the way the American political system operates. Asking can democracies fly in space?, the author suggests that the traditional workings of democratic politics actually exacerbates those very features of space projects--size, expense, and complexity--that make their development so difficult in the first place.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1995
First published: November 1995
Authors: W. Kay
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95254-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > General
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LSN: 0-275-95254-1
Barcode: 9780275952549

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