Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier

• Main Author: Logsdon, John M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; United States-History.; World politics.; Technology-History.; Popular Science in History.; US History.; History of Science.; Political History.; History of Technology.

When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.S. space program at a crossroads. In contrast to his predecessors, Reagan saw outer space as humanity's final frontier and as an opportunity for glo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Cowboy Comes to Washington
• 2. Getting Started
• 3. First Decisions
• 4. An Initial Reagan Space Policy
• 5. SIG (Space) Gets Started
• 6. Space Shuttle Issues: Round One
• 7. The Next Logical Step
• 8. Debates and Disagreement
• 9. The Space Station Decision
• 10. "Follow Our Dreams to Distant Stars"
• 11. Together in Orbit: Round One
• 12. Space Commercialization
• 13. Commercializing Earth Orbit
• 14. Space Shuttle Issues: Round Two
• 15. Finishing the First Term
• 16. Changing of the Guard
• 17. Shuttle Wars
• 18. Challenger
• 19. Recovering from the Accident
• 20. Correcting a Policy Mistake
• 21. The Home Stretch
• 22. Together in Orbit: Round Two
• 23. The Quest for Leadership
• 24. The Reagan Space Legacy.