Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 Book

Contents

Preface....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xiv
List of Abbreviations....................xvii
ONE The Inheritance....................1
Part I. Acclaim and Agitation: The Murray Years, 1976-1982 TWO Planetary Exploration Triumphant....................17
THREE Planetary Exploration in Extremis....................42
FOUR External Relations and the Internal Environment....................59
FIVE Diversification....................78
SIX Return to the Military....................93
SEVEN Space Technology....................108
Part II. Restoration: The Allen Years, 1982-1991 EIGHT The Rise and Decline of Defense Programs....................125
NINE The Dividends of Defense Programs....................142
TEN Space and Earth Science....................155
ELEVEN JPL under Allen....................165
TWELVE Recovery of Flight Projects....................175
THIRTEEN Voyager Redux, Galileo, and Magellan....................186
Part III. Beyond the Cold War: The Stone Years, 1991-2001 FOURTEEN Faster, Better, Cheaper....................207
FIFTEEN Reengineering JPL....................228
SIXTEEN The Tilting Triangle and Commercialization....................242
SEVENTEEN A Break in the Storm....................256
EIGHTEEN Annus Miserabilis....................276
NINETEEN Epilogue, 2001-2004....................287
TWENTY Conclusion....................298
Notes....................315
Index....................383