Table of Contents

1. A Cowboy Comes to Washington.- 2. Getting Started.- 3. First Decisions.- 4. An Initial Reagan Space Policy.- 5. SIG (Space) Gets Started.- 6. Space Shuttle Issues: Round One.- 7. The Next Logical Step.- 8. Debates and Disagreement.- 9. The Space Station Decision.- 10. "Follow Our Dreams to Distant Stars".- 11. Together in Orbit: Round One.- 12. Space Commercialization.- 13. Commercializing Earth Orbit.- 14. Space Shuttle Issues: Round Two.- 15. Finishing the First Term.- 16. Changing of the Guard.- 17. Shuttle Wars.- 18. Challenger.- 19. Recovering from the Accident.- 20. Correcting a Policy Mistake.- 21. The Home Stretch.- 22. Together in Orbit: Round Two.- 23. The Quest for Leadership.- 24. The Reagan Space Legacy.

About the Author

John M. Logsdon is a world-renowned historian and analyst of space issues. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (Palgrave, 2010) and After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program (Palgrave, 2015), both of which are award-winning, definitive accounts of presidential space policy. He is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and founder of its Space Policy Institute.

Reviews

“John Logsdon’s Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier is a foundational work that should be consulted by anyone who wishes to delve deeply into NASA history and civil space policy in the 1980s. … it will be an essential work for professional historians and political scientists interested in late 20th-century presidential space decision-making.” (Michael J. Neufeld, Quest, Vol. 27 (1), 2020)
“This volume is a tutorial on the leadership and legacy of Reagan’s space interests, details that should be instructive to all those in the space community eager to fathom today’s presidential pronouncements about  America’s space agenda.this new book from Logsdon adds to the author’s legacy of space policy observations.” (Leonard David, Leonard David's Inside Outer Space, leonarddavid.com, May 29, 2019)