NASA in the World Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is typically thought of in national terms - as an American initiative developed specifically to compete with the Soviet Union. Yet, from its inception, NASA was mandated not only to sustain US leadership in space, but also to pursue international collaboration. Since that time, it has participated in over four thousand international projects. Drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel, this definitive study explores US-Soviet cooperation during the darkest days of the Cold War, relations with Western Europe, India, and Japan, the development of the International Space Station, and many other aspects of scientific and technological collaboration, making it a signal contribution to space studies and international diplomatic history.

John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and the author of American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (2006). An acknowledged expert on the history of the space program, he has appeared in recent years on American Public Radio, the BBC, and Swiss Radio.

Angelina Long Callahan is Associate Historian at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, USA, where she wrote her dissertation on meteorological satellites and the Cold War. She has a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of History, Technology, and Society. Her other research pursuits include the history of 1920-30s drone research and development and technological roots of the Vanguard satellite project.

Ashok Maharaj has a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of History, Technology, and Society, USA. He lives and works in Chennai, India.

PART I: 50 YEARS OF NASA AND THE WORLD (John Krige)
1. Introduction and Historical Overview: NASA's International Relations in Space

PART II: NASA AND WESTERN EUROPE (John Krige)
2. NASA, Space Science and Western Europe
3. Technology Transfer with Western Europe: NASA-ELDO Relations in the 1960s
4. European Participation in the Post-Apollo Program, 1969-70: The Paine Years
5. European Participation in the post-Apollo Program, 1971: The US Begins to Have Second Thoughts - and So Do the Europeans
6. European Participation in the post-Apollo Program. 1972. Disentangling the Alliance. The Victory of Clean Interfaces

PART III: NASA AND THE SOVIET UNION / RUSSIA (Angelina Long)
7. Sustaining Soviet-American Collaboration, 1957-1989
8. Russian-American Cooperation in Space: Privatization, Remuneration and Collective Security

PART IV: NASA'S RELATIONS WITH JAPAN AND INDIA (Ashok Maharaj)
9. An Overview of NASA-Japan Relations: From Pencil Rockets to the International Space Station
10. NASA and the Politics of Delta Launch Vehicle Technology Transfer to Japan
11. An Overview of NASA-India Relations
12. Satellite Broadcasting in Rural India: The SITE Project

PART V: INTO THE 21ST CENTURY (John Krige)
13. Space Collaboration Today: The ISS
14. The Impact of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)