Download or read book Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight written by Steven J. Dick and published by U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing read, "Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight" is a volume consisting of scholarship on the current state of the discipline of space history presented in a joint NASA and NASM conference in 2005. The essays presented in the book question such issues as the motivations of spaceflight, and the necessity, if any, of manned space exploration. Though a highly informative and scholarly volume, "Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight" is thoroughly enjoyable for readers off all different backgrounds who share an interest in human spaceflight.