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About this book
Revealing the connections between NASA and the United States defense community
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. The story begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and follows the agency through its growth, not only in scope but also in complexity.
In Spies and Shuttles, David digs through newly declassified documents to ultimately reveal how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He tracks NASA’s early cooperation—supplying cover stories for covert missions, analyzing the Soviet space program, providing weather and other scientific data from its satellites, and monitoring missile tests—that eventually devolved into NASA’s reliance on DoD for political and financial support for the Shuttle. David also examines the restrictions imposed on such activities as photographing the Earth from space and the intrusive review mechanisms to ensure compliance.
The ties between NASA and the intelligence community have historically remained unexplored, and David’s riveting book is the first to investigate the twists and turns of this labyrinthine relationship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Forging Close Ties in NASA’s Early Years
- 2 NASA, the CIA, and Foreign Intelligence during the Apollo Era
- 3 Expanding Interaction in Old and New Areas
- 4 Restrictions on Remote Sensing from Space
- 5 Concerns over Human Spaceflight Program Experiments and Lunar and Astronomy Program Technologies
- 6 The Shuttle: NASA’s Radically New Partnership with the National Security Agencies
- 7 The National Security Agencies Abandon the Shuttle
- 8 NASA’s Applications Satellites and National Security Requirements
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index