JPL and the American Space Program
A History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory| By: | Clayton R. Koppes |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780300024081 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780300236293 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The story of JPL is much more than a technical or scientific history. Clayton R. Koppes has brought to life the political controversies and human interactions that erupt in a large, elite organization; traced the complex, frequently acrimonious relationship between JPL, its parent Caltech, the government, and the aerospace industry; and ultimately raised important questions about the funding, control and purposes of scientific and engineering research in the national security state.