Space veteran and bestselling author Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with top-notch investigative journalism to tell the complete story of the U.S.-Russian space alliance.
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Space veteran and bestselling author Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with top-notch investigative journalism to tell the complete story of the U.S.-Russian space alliance.
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Good, ex-lib., good. 355, illus., notes, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards Space veteran and bestselling author Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with top-notch investigative journalism to tell the complete story of the U.S. -Russian space alliance. Oberg, formerly a NASA contract employee, believes that Russia has cooperated with the United States on space missions, not to promote international goodwill or advance scientificresearch, but rather to secure funding for its own space program, maintain a continued presence in the international space market, and obtain access to U.S. technology.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Inscribed by author on ffep. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Price clipped dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases & small tears in a mylar cover.
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Very good in very good jacket. x, [2], 355, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. James Edward Oberg (born November 7, 1944), often known as Jim Oberg, is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs. He had a 22-year career as a space engineer in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous. Oberg is an author of ten books and more than a thousand articles on space flight. After service in the United States Air Force, he joined NASA in 1975, where he worked until 1997 at Johnson Space Center on the Space Shuttle program. He worked in the Mission Control Center for several Space Shuttle missions from STS-1 on, specializing in orbital rendezvous techniques. This culminated in planning the orbit for the STS-88 mission, the first International Space Station (ISS) assembly flight. During the 1990s, he was involved in NASA studies of the Soviet space program, with particular emphasis on safety aspects; these had often been covered up or downplayed, and with the advent of the ISS and the Shuttle-Mir programs, NASA was keen to study them as much as possible. He privately published several books on the Soviet (and later Russian) programs, and became one of the few Western specialists on Russian space history. He has been called to testify before the US Congress on the Russian space program. In 1997 he resigned from NASA and started a full-time free-lance career. Currently he works as a consultant in spaceflight operations and safety and as a space journalist. In Star-Crossed Orbits, space veteran and bestselling author James Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with top-notch investigative journalism to tell the complete untold story of the U.S. -Russian space alliance. With unparalleled access to official Russian archives, facilities, and key individuals associated with the Russian space program, he describes the strengths and weaknesses that each side of the alliance brings to the table. And he reveals for the first time the full story of Russia's decaying space program and how it ultimately was saved from collapse by Western funds. James Oberg's book is a welcome foray into an underexamined topic. As a former space engineer and now a freelance space commentator, Oberg can offer an insider's unique knowledge and perspective. He provides entertaining anecdotes about what it is like to build, operate, and support a space station, and he regales the reader with stories about remarkable cosmonauts, quick-thinking engineers, and strained bureaucrats. Oberg's basic theme is that the U.S. -Russia "relationship [regarding the ISS] has evolved into new patterns of mutual misunderstanding" based primarily on the ineptitude, naiveté and desperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and on the Russians' propensity to mislead and even extort their U.S. partners. The book begins by reviewing the zenith of Soviet and Russian achievements in human spaceflight. After selectively tracing Soviet/Russian space history and the origins of the U.S. -Russian partnership, Oberg turns to the Shuttle-Mir program, also known as "Phase One" of the ISS. He focuses on Mir's problems and lambastes NASA for purposefully ignoring safety risks. His harshest criticism, though, is of NASA's claim that this initial phase gave the two sides valuable practice for the ISS and spawned meaningful scientific work. He speculates that the Russians might yet disconnect their half of the ISS, leaving the U.S. -led half to founder on its own (pp.322-323).
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