Bibliograph

Escaping gravity, my quest to transform NASA and launch a new space age, Lori Garver ; foreword by Walter Isaacson

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Escaping gravity, my quest to transform NASA and launch a new space age, Lori Garver ; foreword by Walter Isaacson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Escaping gravity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1328013856

Responsibility statement

Lori Garver ; foreword by Walter Isaacson

Sub title

my quest to transform NASA and launch a new space age

Summary

"Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls "space pirates." Their quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s. As the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature. She was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts. The result: more efficiency and greater progress. Including insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed to become the envy of the world and is ushering in a new space age, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful change" --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Timeline of key events in human spaceflight -- Prologue -- Part One-Gravity. Game changer -- Star struck -- Modern myths -- Risky business. Part Two-Force. Looking under the hood -- Heavy lift -- Dark matter -- Rise of the rocketeers. Part three-motion. It's not just rocket science -- Turning wrongs into rights -- Unleashing the dragon -- The value proposition. Epilogue -- Author's note -- Acronyms -- Sources -- Index -- About the author

Target audience

adult

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