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SP-4221 The Space Shuttle Decision
Cover art: From the Seeds of Change.....a Discovery. By Robert A. M. Stephens, oil on canvas, c.1984.
Para Beverley: mi vida, mi amor, la esposa de mi corazon.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Abbreviations and Acronyms.
Chapter 1. Space Stations and Winged Rockets.
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The Collier's Series.
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Background to the Space Station.
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Winged Rockets: The Work of Eugen Sanger.
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Navaho and the Main Line of American Liquid Rocketry.
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The X-15: An Airplane for Hypersonic Research.
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Lifting Bodies: Wingless Winged Rockets.
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Solid-Propellant Rockets: Inexpensive Boosters.
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Dyna-Soar: A Failure in Evolution.
Chapter 2. NASA's Uncertain Future.
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Technology Bypasses the Space Station.
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Apollo Applications: Prelude to a Space Station.
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Space Station Concepts of the 1960s.
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Early Studies of Low-Cost Space Flight.
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Two Leaders Emerge: Max Hunter and George Mueller.
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NASA and the Post-Apollo Future.
Chapter 3. Mars and Other Dream Worlds.
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Nuclear Rocket Engines.
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A New Administrator: Thomas Paine.
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Space Shuttle Studies Continue.
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Space Policy: Opening Gambits.
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Paine Seeks a Space Station.
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Space Shuttles Receive New Attention.
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Space Task Group Members Prepare Plans.
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Agnew Leads a Push Toward Mars.
Chapter 4. Winter of Discontent.
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The Sixties.
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Mars: The Advance.
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Mars: The Retreat.
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The Turn of Congress.
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Paine Leaves NASA.
Chapter 5. Shuttle to the Forefront.
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The Air Force in Space.
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The Air Force and NASA.
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A New Shuttle Configuration.
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Station Fades; Shuttle Advances.
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The Space Shuttle Main Engine.
Chapter 6. Economics and the Shuttle.
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Why People Believed in Low-Cost Space Flight.
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The Shuttle Faces Questions.
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Change at NASA and the Bureau of the Budget.
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The Fall of the Two-Stage Fully-Reusable Shuttle.
Chapter 7. Aerospace Recession.
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The Boeing 747.
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The Supersonic Transport (SST).
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The Lockheed L-1011.
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Aftermaths.
Chapter 8. A Shuttle to Fit the Budget.
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The Orbiter: Convergence to a Good Solution.
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The Booster: Confusion and Doubt.
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End Game in the Shuttle Debate.
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TAOS: A New Alternative.
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A Time to Decide.
Chapter 9. Nixon's Decision.
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Nixon and Technology.
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Space Shuttle: The Last Moves.
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The Hinge of Decision.
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Loose Ends I: A Final Configuration.
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Loose Ends II: NERVA and Cape Canaveral.
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Awarding the Contracts.
Bibliography , Reports and Other Publications: AIAA, Corporations, NASA.
Index.
The NASA History Series.
