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From the moment NASA was founded in 1958, the space community was in the public eye. Most Americans, but also an international audience, was interested in the American advances in space and the people in the community who helped to make them happen. The public attention was a good thing for the space agency because public backing was necessary to justify NASA's activities and exorbitant spending. This is why NASA courted the American people and the media to gain their favor. Therefore, one of the major risks for the space agency, besides dead or misbehaving astronauts, lacking or insufficient financial investments, and operation-delaying failures, was negative publicity or deficient public interest in the space community, its activities, and representatives. 1 Because the space agency was dependent on a complaisant American public, NASA and the space community had to persist in public. Staying in the public's favour over the decades could entail different things, like granting access to journalists or participating in public events. Sometimes, however, the space agency needed more drastic measures to appease emerging sullenness, fury, or overwhelming requests on the part of the pub

Author

Hilck, Karin (author)

Publisher

De Gruyter

Published

2019

Language

EN