| Title: | Spies and shuttles : NASA's secret relationships with the DOD and CIA / |
| Authors: | James E. David, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida, 2015 |
| Size: | 1 online resource(xiv, 354 p.) / ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | TL789.8.U5 |
| Subjects: | Astronautics and state--United States--History ; National security--United States ; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History |
| Description: | Author James David tells the inside story of how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, performing covert operations such as flying over sensitive areas, launching secret telecommunications satellites, and missile launch testing |
| Contents note: | Introduction -- Forging close ties in NASA's early years -- NASA, the CIA, and foreign intelligence during the Apollo era -- Expanding interaction in old and new areas -- Restrictions on remote sensing from space -- Concerns over human spaceflight program experiments and lunar and astronomy program technologies -- The shuttle : NASA's radically new partnership with the national security agencies -- The national security agencies abandon the shuttle -- NASA's applications satellites and national security requirements -- Conclusion |
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