There was a time when the world held its breath and watched three men perform a technical miracle — when one agency of America's federal government demonstrated the "can do" attitude that Americans value so highly. That agency was NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Handed a seemingly impossible task and ten years in which to accomplish it, NASA did more in less time. Its astronauts became heroes to the nation and the world; NASA came to epitomize America's ability to dream big and make the big dream a reality, to do the hardest jobs right.
Alas, those brave days are long gone. NASA's luster has dimmed. It stumbles over even routine tasks.
Greg Klerkx has written a book about what went wrong with NASA, where those grand visions went, why our progress in space stopped at low Earth orbit, and how we can get our dreams back on track.
| LOST IN SPACE |
| Greg Klerkx New York: Pantheon books, 2004 |
| ISBN 0-375-42150-5 |
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