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<P>Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them.</P><P>In <I>NASA and the Space Industry,</I> Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.</P>

Author

Cheskin MD, Lawrence J., Lacy PhD MD, Brian E.

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801873508

Subjects

Engineering, History, Science

Updated

2026-03-24