A Historical past of NASA’s Decadal Planning Staff and the Imaginative and prescient for House Exploration, 1999–2004
By Glen R. Asner and Stephen J. Garber
Winner of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronomics (AIAA) Historical past Manuscript Award for 2020
2020 Winner of the Society for Historical past within the Federal Authorities’s Henry Adams E-book Prize
Lower than one 12 months after the Columbia House Shuttle accident on 1 February 2003, President George W. Bush introduced at NASA Headquarters that the Company would embark on a brand new Imaginative and prescient for House Exploration because it resumed Shuttle flights and labored towards completion of the Worldwide House Station. The President’s formidable agenda included lunar and Martian exploration with robotic precursors adopted by human missions. The conceptual foundations of the President’s plan had their origins in 1999, when NASA Administrator Dan Goldin initiated a Decadal Planning Staff to generate viable plans for people and robots to discover house past low-Earth orbit. This guide offers an in depth historic account of the concepts, debates, and choices that opened the best way for a brand new era of spaceflight at first of the Twenty first Century.
NASA SP-4415
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