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Index ABM Treaty, 1972. See SALT I; SALT II Abrahamson, James A. “Abe,” 60, 88, 96, 113, 118 Advanced Launch System (ALS), 94, 113, 123, 126, 156, 186, 210. See also National Launch System (NLS) Advanced Research Projects Agency. See ARPA Aerojet General Corporation, 77, 140 Aerospace Corporation, 119, 120, 121, 122, 128-129, 133, 141, 167 Aerospaceplane, 67, 77 Aerospace planes, 3, 65-67. See also NASP Aerospace States Association, 176, 214 “Aircraft-like” operations, 3, 5-6, 67-69, 71-74, 89-97, 111, 125, 187-189, 192-193 Air Flight Dynamics Laboratory (AFDL) (air force), 5 Albrecht, Mark, 157 Aldrich, Arnold D., 184-185, 187, 194, 196 Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,” 105, 158 Allen, Richard, 105 American Space Foundation, 103-104 Anderson, Poul, 105, 164 Arianespace, 39-43, 46 ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), 52, 55, 77, 78, 81, 114, 165, 177-178, 195, 199, 202; as home of SSTO Program, 169-171 ASATs (antisatellite systems), 48, 52-53, 117-118 Aspin, Les, 172, 176, 193 ASSET (Aerothermodynamic/elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests) program , 5 Atwood, Donald, 163 Augustine, Norman, 17, 150 Austin, Robert “Gene,” 186, 188, 189, 198, 200 Bainbridge, William Sims, 215 Ballard, Robert, 169 Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. See under SDIO Bateman, Herbert H., 159 Baucom, Donald, 55 Beach, H. Lee, Jr., 184 Beggs, James M., 25, 42 Beichel, Rudi, 84 Bekey, Ivan, 79, 96, 115, 186, 187 Bluford, Guion S., Jr., 150 Boeing, 38, 68-71, 73-77, 80-81, 84, 127-128, 131, 135, 158, 210 Bolden, Charles, 184 Bono, Phil, 85-86, 111 Bova, Ben, 21, 105 Brand, Vance D., 206 Brilliant Pebbles, 114, 117-119, 127, 132, 148, 151, 168 Bush, George H., 6, 54, 109, 116, 132, 144, 147-149, 155, 160, 172, 182, 183 Bush, George W., 211 Byrd, Robert, 196 Canavan, Gregory, 117 Carr, Gerald, 105 Carter, Jimmy, and administration, 15-16, 52, 172, 218 Chapman, Philip K., 105 Cheney, Richard, 162, 163 Citizens’ Advisory Council on National Space Policy, 101-112, 117, 121, 149, 159, 164, 214, 217 Clinton, William Jefferson, and administration , 6, 9, 172-174, 184, 195, 198, 203, 210-211, 215-216, 218 Clipper Graham, 9, 205-207, 214. See also DC-XA Coakley, Jack, 105 Cohen, Aaron, 184 Cold war, the, 6, 19, 47-52, 62, 111, 144, 212, 217; end of, 6, 46, 146-147, 212 Conrad, Charles “Pete,” 105, 135, 143, 201 Conservative space agenda, 23, 36, 47, 106, 216; de~ned, 7, 14, 16, 216-217. See also New Right; Reagan Revolution Cook, Steve, 200 Cooper, Gordon, 105 Cooper, Henry F., 147, 168 Copper Canyon, 77, 78-79 Cunningham, John, 170-171 DalBello, Richard, 195 Dannenberg, Konrad, 105 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). See ARPA Davis, Bob, 166 Dawson, Terry, 177-178 DC-X, 1, 5-6, 8-9, 37, 47, 73, 83, 116, 124, 133-134, 140, 155, 189, 199; and “aircraft-like operations,” 143; as DC-XA, 203-208; delivered ahead of schedule, 143; derivation of name, 134; description, 130, 141; Environmental Assessment, 166; Final Design Review , 166; _ight testing, 165, 178-181, 201-203; friends of, 157-161, 181-182, 214-215; funding of _ight testing, 178, 181-182, 195, 199; propulsion system, 141-142; reasons for political survival, 213-214; roll-out, 179; as technology testbed, 199-201; use of available hardware, 142. See also SSTO program; SX-2 DC-XA, 201, 202, 204-208; crash, 205-207; _ight tests, 204-205; roll-out, 204 DC-Y, 130, 170, 175 Decker, John, 70 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). See ARPA Delta Clipper Experimental. See DC-X Deming, W. Edwards, 137-138 Department of Defense Space Launch Modernization Plan. See Moorman Report Deutch, John, 193 Domenici, Peter V., 160, 176, 213 Dore, Frank J., 90 Dornan, Robert, 163, 170, 177 Douglas Aircraft, 85, 88, 89, 139 Downs, Daniel L., 124 Dula, Arthur, 105 Dumbacher, Dan, 204 Du Pont, Tony, 78-79 Dyna-Soar, 69, 71-72 Edison, Thomas A., 138-139 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 5, 48 Eldred, Chuck, 70-71 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, 210 Fairchild Space Company, 34-36 Fallon, Bill, 170 “Faster, cheaper, smaller,” 4-6, 9, 60, 73, 80-82, 95, 97, 107, 111, 115, 124, 135-137, 142-143, 149, 173-174, 179, 182, 188-189, 204, 212; at NASA, 182, 189, 192, 200, 203, 207-208, 210, 212-213, 215; at SDIO, 113-114, 151, 200 Flynn, Michael, 109 Ford, Gerald, 52 French, Jim, 201 Fuller, Craig, 25...

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