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Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle every step of the way. It was the most vivid and potentially consequential program within NASA¿s larger Earth Science directorate. How did it happen? Who did what? Why? This book seeks to answer such questions. It goes back to the origins of NASA¿s interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true...

Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space program and NASA's organizational culture.

How do science and technology issues become important to a particular presidency? Which issues gain priority? How? Why? What is the role of the presidency in the adoption of national policies affecting science and technology? In their implementation? How does the presidency try to curtail certain programs? This book deals with these questions.

This edited collection describes federal and state programmes, institutions, and changing policy issues, given the new world order of technology and competitiveness. Specialists provide varying perspectives and recommendations for students and policymakers to consider.

Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA's establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. This book analyzes the history of the robotic Mars exploration program from its origins to today.

NASA SP-2005-4538. Monographs in Aerospace History, No. 38. Chronicles the stages NASA went through in its efforts to study and provide information on the depletion of the ozone.