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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