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Financing the New Space industry : breaking free of gravity and government support

Howard E. McCurdy, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2019

Can private sector firms raise enough capital to end the usual dependence on government funding? What can historical examples of other large-scale transportation initiatives, such as the first transcontinental railway and the first commercial je[...]

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Financing the New Space industry : breaking free of gravity and government support

Howard E. McCurdy, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2019

Can private sector firms raise enough capital to end the usual dependence on government funding? What can historical examples of other large-scale transportation initiatives, such as the first transcontinental railway and the first commercial je[...]

Nasa spaceflight : a history of innovation

Roger D. Launius, Editor ; Howard E. McCurdy, Editor | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2018

This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since the beginning of space[...]

Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel

Roger D. Launius ; Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2008

Roger D. Launius received the Smithsonian Institution Secretary's research Prize 2009 for that book.

Low-cost innovation in spaceflight : the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker mission

Howard E. McCurdy | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | Monographs in Aerospace History | 2005

Faster, better, cheaper : low-cost innovation in the U. S. space program

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2001

Space exploration has always been one of the country's most expensive undertakings. The first moon landing cost $21 billion in 1969 dollars. The International Space Station currently under construction will cost at least $65 billion by the time [...]

Imagining space : achievements, predictions, possibilities : 1950-2050

Roger D. Launius ; Howard E. McCurdy ; Ray Bradbury | [S.l.] : Chronicle Books | 2001

In 1949, in the provocative book "The conquest of space", Hollywood special effects artist Chesley Bonestell depicted how the Moon and planets might appear to the first explorers of these new worlds. His renditions, and those of fiction writers,[...]

Space and the American imagination

Howard E. McCurdy | [S.l.] : Smithsonian Institution Press | Smithsonian history of aviation series | 1997

Spaceflight and the myth of presidential leadership

Roger D. Launius, Editor ; Howard E. McCurdy, Editor | [S.l.] : University of Illinois Press | 1997

Inside NASA : high technology and organizational change in the U.S. space program

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1992

The space station decision : incremental politics and technological choice

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1990