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Outstanding Academic Title, 1991, Choice Magazine Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous task for bureaucrats. The Space Station Decision examines the history of this controversial initiative and illustrates how bureaucracy shapes public policy. Using primary documents and interviews, Howard E. McCurdy describes the events that led up to the 1984 decision to build a permanently occupied, international space station in low Earth orbit. As he follows the trail of the space station proposal through the labyrinth of White House policy review, McCurdy explains the evolution of the presidential budget review process, the breakup of the cabinet system, the proliferation of subcabinets and Executive Office interagency, the involvement of White House staff in framing issues for presidential review, and the role of bureaucracy in advancing administration legislation on Capitol Hill. Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to build the space shuttle, McCurdy shows how public officials responsible for long-term science and technology policy maneuvered in a political system that demanded short-term flexibility.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Other technologies & applied sciences Space science

• Full title: Space Station Decision
• Subtitle: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice
• Author: Howard E. McCurdy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• EAN: 9780801887499
• ISBN: 0801887496
• ID: 04709942
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 486 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 256 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. March 2008

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