Falling Back to Earth: A Firsthand Account of the Great Space Race and the End of the Cold War
At this lecture and book signing, Mark Albrecht, former executive secretary of the National Space Council, links the decline of the U.S. aerospace industry to the end of the Cold War.
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Oct 26, 2011 06:00 PM
Oct 26, 2011 07:30 PM
Oct 26, 2011 from 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm |
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Even as President Barack Obama calls on NASA to develop “game-changing” technologies, the space agency is undeniably in decline. In 2010, the country continues to shrink its space ambition, as it has since the early 1990s. The American era of manned spaceflight is essentially over. In “Falling Back to Earth,” author Mark Albrecht, Ph.D., former executive secretary of the National Space Council, argues that this decay was triggered by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. His firsthand account charts the end of the space race, which effectively ended large-scale government science initiatives and led to the decline of aerospace and defense industries.
- SPEAKERS
- George W.S. Abbey
- Mark Albrecht
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