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Space, the Dormant Frontier Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century
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Joan Johnson-Freese, Roger Handberg
Book Code: C5887
ISBN: 0-275-95887-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95887-9
288 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/1997
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • In this ambitious book, Johnson-Freese and Handberg offer a fresh look at the structure of the nation's space activities, attempting to lay out a road map for major changes in the way the United States conceives and executes these activities....The authors, both of whom have been involved in policy analysis of space activities for some years, succeed very well in raising issues that need to be addressed.
    —Space Times
Description: Rather than examining only the civil or military side of the US space program, as many books in the past have done, Space, the Dormant Frontier takes a unique look at the space program as a whole. Part of the book's treatise is that the two communities must stop ignoring each other if the US space program is to move forward beyond being a science project, jobs program, or political football. How the program got into its current, semi-desperate state is also examined, as history has given space a legacy once glorious, now an albatross. The authors include information and analysis on the military and civil space programs, challenge the perspective of the Washington Beltway analyst with vested interests in the status quo, and make policy recommendations based on realism, rather than idealism.
Table of Contents:
  • Repackaging the Dream
  • Policy Overview: If You Don't Care Where You're Going, Any Road Will Take You There
  • The Situation
  • Space as a Government Domain
  • History As Inertia
  • The Economics of Space, Breaking the Dependency Cycle
  • The Opportunity
  • Semidesperate Times
  • Seeking New Opportunities
  • The Method
  • Convergence, Merging the Space Technology Bases
  • Change the Paradigm, Incorporate Politics and Emphasize Economics
  • A Parallel Development Plan
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-53546
LCC Class: TL789
Dewey Class: 387
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