CONTENTS
Volume 18, AAS History Series,
Organizing for the Use of Space:
Historical Perspectives on a Persistent Issue

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Preface ix

Chapter 1.  A Question of Antecedents: Peenemünde, JPL, and the Launching of U.S. Rocketry, J. D. Hunley 1

Chapter 2.  Organizing for Space: The Popular Culture of the Cold War, Howard E. McCurdy 33

Chapter 3.  The Eisenhower Administration and the Cold War:  Framing American Astronautics to Serve National Security, R. Cargill Hall 49

Chapter 4.  Early U.S. Civil Space Policy, NASA, and the Aspiration of Space Exploration, Roger D. Launius 63

Chapter 5.  NASA and the Challenge of Organizing for Exploration, Sylvia K. Kraemer 87

Chapter 6.  Space Policy-Making in the White House: The Early Years of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, Dwayne A. Day 117

Chapter 7.  The United States Air Force Organizes for Space: The Operational Quest, 1943-1993, Rick W. Sturdevant 155

Chapter 8.  Developing a Management Structure for the Strategic Defense Initiative, Donald R. Baucom 187

Index 217

Numerical Index 219

Author Index 220