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Index Adams, Sherman, 43, 44 Advanced Research Projects Agency, (ARPA) 54,55 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 121 American Rocket Society, 28, 33 Amtrak, 119 anti-satellite weapons, 131–2 Apollo Applications Project. See Skylab Apollo fire, 7, 99, 104, Apollo program, 4, 6, 10, 19, 64, 76, 106, 139, 153, 155, 157, 168, 169, 172, 176 criticisms of 77, 79, 81–82, 84, 96–97 Apollo XI, 85, 91–92, 130, 156, 157 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 13, 14, 17,55, 57 ballistic missile defense. See Strategic Defense Initiative Baker, James, 140, 149 Bay of Pigs, 72, 81 Beggs, James M., 126, 139, 140, 146 biotechnology, 14–15 Branscomb, Lewis, 169 British Interplanetary Society, 28 Brooks, Overton, 6, 69 Brown, George, 167, 168 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), 133 Bureau of the Budget, 81–82, 92, 94, 104, 107 Bush, George H. W., 4, 67, 150, 156, 157, 160, 161, 163, 168, 172, 173 Bush, George W., 22, 167, 176, 177, 178 Bush, Vannevar, 32, 33, 77 Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade, 136–38, 140 Carey, William, 121 Carson, Rachel, 97 Carter, Jimmy, 13, 15, 17, 23, 108, 109, 110, 118, 122, 123 , 124 Cassini probe, 159 Central Intelligence Agency, 38 Challenger (space shuttle), 5, 7, 99, 135, 145, 146, 147, 151–53, 154, 160, 177, 178 China, People’s Republic of, 9, 33 Clarke, Arthur C., 33 Clinch River Breeder Reactor, 123 Clinton, William J., 22, 122, 123, 160–62, 163, 167 Cold War, 5, 18, 21, 44, 46–48, 49,56, 58, 59, 62, 75, 76, 83, 107, 110, 114, 127, 131, 141, 144, 155, 156, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170 as justification for more public R&D spending, 49–50, 100, 104 Collier’s magazine, 34 Columbia (space shuttle), 5, 7, 125, 126, 151, 177, 178 communication satellites, 115–16 243 Commercially Developed Space Facility. See Industrial Space Facility Conestoga I, 133 Congress, U. S., 5, 9, 14, 21–22, 50–51, 55–58, 63, 134, 136, 144, 145, 146, 152, 156, 159, 163, 164, 167, 168, 171 Cuba, 72, 79 Dallek, Robert, 94 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 54, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170 definition. See problem definition Democratic Party, 5, 43, 50, 61, 65, 160, 161, 162, 176 Department of Commerce, 137, 149, 150, 156, 161 Department of Defense (DOD), 6, 42–43, 48–49, 54, 97, 104–5, 113, 120, 132, 136, 137, 139, 153, 166, 168, 178 Department of Energy (DOE), 16, 18–9, 20, 23, 119, 166 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 7 Department of Transportation (DOT), 119, 133, 134, 137, 146, 152, 156 Department of Veteran’s Affairs 7 Dery, David, 11, 13 Disney, Walt, 34 Dornberger, Walter, 29, 3 Dryden, Hugh, 71 dual use technology, 165, 168 DuBridge, Lee A., 107 Dulles, Allen, 38–39 Echo I, 61 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39–40, 41, 54, 55,57, 60, 64, 72, 73, 119, 127, 155 criticisms of, 43–44, 48–49, 61, 71, 100 response to Sputnik, 42–44, 48, 50, 176 energy policy, 15, 122 European Space Agency, 162 Explorer I, 42, 49, 61 Federal Aviation Administration, 133 Federal Communications Commission, 133 First Men in the Moon (Wells), 27, 28 Fletcher, James, 149 Fulbright, J. William, 79, 173 Fuller, Craig, 136, 140 fusion energy program, 16, 20, 21, 49–50 Gagarin, Yuri, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 86 Galileo probe, 125, 126, 159 Gemini Project, 86, 100, 102, 111 German Society for Spaceship Travel. See Verein fur Raumschiffhrt Gilruth, Robert, 85 Glennan, T. Keith, 57, 59, 62, 64 Goddard, Robert, 27, 28–29 Goldin, Daniel, 158–60 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 120 Greenberg, Daniel S., 50 Hale, Edward Everett, 27 Herblock, 43, 173 high-energy physics, 50 Hitler, Adolf, 30, 31, 120, 143 Hornig, Donald F., 96 House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, 49 Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 54 Legislative Reorganization Act, 54 Science and Astronautics Committee, 44, 49, 51,71, 104, 163, 168 Hubble space telescope, 8 Industrial policy, 119 Industrial Space Facility (ISF), 146–50, 154 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), 32, 37, 38, 45 International Geophysical Year (IGY), 35–37 International Space Station (ISS), 4, 19, 162, 178 Reagan’s approval of, 10, 139–41 issue definition. See problem definition issue entrepreneur, 29 Japan, 32, 162, 167 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 37 Johnson, Lyndon B. 23, 34, 51–53, 55,57, 63, 65, 67, 105, 129, 157, 171 244 INDEX [18.218.184.214] Project MUSE (2024-04-23...

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