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Writing NASA's Marching Orders (05 Mar 2005) In New Moon Rising, Sietzen and Cowing untangle the thicket of competing interests that formed the new space policy, giving a fly-on-the-wall look at the intense maneuvering at the White House, on Capitol Hill, at NASA headquarters, and within the broader aerospace community that preceded the plan's announcement. The authors' ability to report on the existence of some of these secret meetings, let alone the substance of what was discussed, would beggar belief, were it not for their journalistic pedigrees: Sietzen is a longtime aerospace reporter, and Cowing is the editor of NASA Watch, an online newsletter closely read by space insiders. Although only time will tell if NASA's new money will produce concrete results, New Moon Rising provides a lucid look at the messy and tangled process by which national science and engineering policy really gets made. Article URL: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/mar05/0305book.html Read 83 more articles from IEEE Spectrum sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Feature: Developing Your Site for Performance, part 2 - Optimal Cache Control
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