NASA’s Quest for Human Spaceflight Popular Appeal, Roger Lanius, Social Science Quarterly “Objective: Analyze NASA’s efforts to “sell” both its mission and its successes from its origins in 1958 to the present. Methods: Use public opinion polling and qualitative sources to establish change over time. Results: Study suggests that NASA’s public support was less important than most have previously asserted, and that the overall activities of NASA have been advanced […]
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Exploding the Myth of Popular Support for Project Apollo, Roger Lanius “Because of the on-going dispute over the future of human space exploration, I have been reminded of the longstanding perception that in the 1960s NASA’s Apollo program enjoyed great public support. That is a misconception. The belief that Apollo enjoyed enthusiastic support during the 1960s and that somehow NASA has lost its compass thereafter still enjoys broad appeal . […]