Covering the International Space Station’s (ISS) inception through the launching of the first two components nearly two decades later, this insider’s account details its demise from a once-promising global initiative to a project rife with controversy, dogged by delays, and filled with budget battles
Explaining how the program struggled to survive in an environment with political and bureaucratic authorities that continually changed its goals, this study analyzes NASA’s past transgressions while eyeing the administration’s future. Annual summaries detailing the station’s most recent developments are also included in this unique, firsthand report.
^Isscapades: The Crippling Of America's Space Program: Apogee Books Space Series #59Indigo. ISBN 9781894959599 (revised Nov 2023)
^Donald A. BeattieISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program: Apogee Books Space Series #59, Collector's Guide Publishing Inc. Amazon. ISBN 9781894959599 (revised Nov 2014)
Victimized by the usual congressional ignorance and short sightedness, the ISS could have been an important next step in our spaceflight evolution. Instead, NASA did the best they could, with the ever shrinking budget thrown their way. Beattie really seems to lay it out when explaining how the original plans for the station were degraded to what we have today. The political infighting within our own government, the international politics involved, and of course the Challenger accident have all had major ..
This is a first rate handbook on the history, design, cost, evolution, battles, politics, deceit, greed, and path to the space station that is on orbit today.It is not a list of lists, or pages of numbers, but a interesting running discussion using original charts and graphs from the briefings and decision panels that constituted what happened on the way to the U.S. Space Station -- the what, why, and how -- the good, the bad, the ugly and the mean. It is straight talk, and includes many of the facts you ..
