Astronomy on Tap Rocket City – NASA in an Age of Austerity: Between Apollo and Shuttle
Calling all space history buffs!! This month’s Astronomy on Tap features a delve into the 1970s with historians Brian Odom (NASA) and Stephen Waring (UAH). By the late 1960s, even as Apollo approached its historic achievements, NASA faced a new era of fiscal constraint and competing national priorities. Declining budgets forced the agency to reconsider […]