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Title Looking backward, looking forward : forty years of U.S. human spaceflight symposium / edited by Stephen J. Garber.

Imprint Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Federal Documents Online  NAS 1.21:2002-4107/CORR.    ---  Available
Description vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series The NASA history series
NASA SP ; 2002-4107
NASA SP ; 4107.
Form Also available from NASA web site.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / John M. Logsdon -- Opening remarks / Daniel S. Goldin -- Human spaceflight and American society : the record so far / Charles Murray -- The spaceflight revolution revisited / William Sims Bainbridge -- Mutual influences : U.S.S.R.-U.S. interactions during the space race / Asif Siddiqi -- Making human spaceflight as safe as possible / Frederick D. Gregory -- What if? Paths not taken / John M. Logsdon -- Apollo and beyond / Buzz Aldrin -- Breaking in the space shuttle / Robert Crippen -- Going commercial / Charles Walker -- Science in orbit / Mary Ellen Weber --Training for the future / T.J. Creamer -- Expanding the frontiers of knowledge / Neil de Grasse Tyson -- Pushing human frontiers / Robert Zubrin -- About an element of human greatness / Homer Hickam -- The ethics of human spaceflight / Laurie Zoloth -- Future visions for scientific human exploration / James Garvin -- Preparing for new challenges / William Shepherd.
Subject Astronautics -- United States -- History.
Manned space flight -- History.
Added Author Garber, Stephen J.
ISBN 0160675952
Gpo Item No. 0830-I (online)
Sudoc No. NAS 1.21:2002-4107/CORR.

 
    
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