Space, the Dormant Frontier: Changing the Paradigm for the 21st Century

by Joan Johnson-Freese and Roger Handberg

Rather than examining only the civil or military side of the US space program, as have many books in the past, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275958876
• ISBN13: 9780275958879
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"