The Space Station: A Personal Journey

by Hans Mark

This insider's account, a penetrating view of science policy and politics during two presidencies, captures the euphoria that characterized the space program in the late seventies and early eighties and furnishes an invaluable perspective on the Challenger tragedy and the future of the United States in space. President Reagan's approval of $8 billion for the construction of a permanently manned orbiting space station climaxed one of the most important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822307278
• ISBN13: 9780822307273
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.