| Title: | Pathways to exploration: : rationales and Approaches for a U.S. program of human space exploration |
| Material Type: | report |
| Publisher: | Washington : The National Academies Press, 2014 |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-0-309-30507-5 |
| Size: | 1 online resource (xx, 259 p.) |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | TL789.8.U5 |
| Subjects: | Astronautics and state--United States ; Manned spaceflight ; Outer space--Exploration |
| Description: | The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades. Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility - the International Space Station - that is becoming the focal point for the first tentative steps in commercial cargo and crewed orbital space flights. And yet, the long-term future of human spaceflight beyond this project is unclear. Pronouncements by multiple presidents of bold new ventures by Americans to the Moon, to Mars, and to an asteroid in its native orbit, have not been matched by the same commitment that accompanied President Kennedy's now fabled 1961 speech-namely, the substantial increase in NASA funding needed to make it happen. Are we still committed to advancing human spaceflight? What should a long-term goal be, and what does the United States need to do to achieve it? |
| Access: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18801 |
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