International Space Commerce: Building from Scratch - Couverture rigide

Handberg, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813029848 ISBN 13 : 9780813029849

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2006

Synopsis

During the last 50 years, NASA's dreamers have boldly gone forward, spending an enormous sum on research, design, and infrastructure. Even in NASA's early days, there were dreamers exploring whether they could privatize some aspects of the U.S. space program to keep it funded - an alternately pragmatic and fantasy concept called space commerce. Handberg offers a historical analysis of the international politicians, economists, scientists, and industrialists who have sought to create an entrepreneurial space program, and brings a current political perspective to the risks, goals, and predicted rewards of space commerce, which may include such enterprises as launch vehicles, telecommunications, and remote sensing. He examines these efforts from three interdependent factors - economics, politics, and technology. For readers interested in space policy as well as technology policy, this volume is an eye-opening portal to the fantasies and realities of space commerce both here on Earth and in the heavens.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Handberg is professor of political science at the University of Central Florida, where he has been director of the Center for Space Policy and Law. He is the author of five books on policy, technology, and spaceflight, including Reinventing NASA and the Quest for Outer Space: Human Spaceflight, Bureaucratic Agendas and National Politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813029848
• ISBN 13: 9780813029849
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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