Description: In this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments.
Brief description: James E. David is a retired curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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"Provides a valuable window into the workings of NASA and the impact that defense and intelligence efforts have on civilian science. . . . A must read for those interested in space history, Cold War security issues, and twentieth-century science and technology."--H-Net
"Offers one of the best analyses to date of the long, and often difficult, history of interaction between NASA and the national security community."--Space Review
"Explains the long history of NASA's tangled relationships with the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency--both their secret successes and some of their more public failures."--Technology and Culture