Description: Atmospheric Science at NASA critically examines this politically controversial science, dissecting the often convoluted roles, motives, and relationships of the various institutional actors involved--among them NASA, congressional appropriation committees, government weather and climate bureaus, and the military.
Brief description: Erik M. Conway serves as historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Review Quotes: As one of the latest books in the New Series in NASA History, Conway's project introduces a new aspect of space science that will be of interest to scholars of this field.
--Kristine C. Harper, American Historical Review