The United States in space

The US program is examined in three contexts: its position internationally, its role domestically, and NASA´s workings internally. Some of the principal issues explored are: what it means for NASA to be simply a lead agency instead of the sole agency charged with implementing the US space program; whether the types of technical and managerial troubles NASA has recently experienced are different in quality from the troubles it had during the Apollo era; how the various pressures to which it is being subjected are effecting its internal ways of doing business; and whether there are lessons from the experiences of other nations´ space programs and their ways of overseeing projects are doing business that could be useful to the US space program, and vice versa.<>