A Waning Of Technocratic Faith: NASA And The Politics Of The Space Shuttle Decision
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R. D. Launius. (1996), JBIS, 49, pp.49-58
Refcode: 1996.49.49
Abstract:
US leaders at the beginning or 1960s expressed a strong consensus that science and technology, coupled with proper leadership and the inspiration of a great cause, could solve almost any problem of society. It was that faith, as well as the Cold War necessity of undertaking something spectacular to overshadow the Soviet Union, that sparked the 1961 Kennedy decision to go to the Moon and to empower experts, in this case aerospace engineers, with the decision-making responsibility and where withal to execute the Apollo programme.
