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A preliminary study of the Soviet civil space program. Volume 1: Organization and OperationsThe organization, planning, and personnel is focused of Soviet space, advantage is taken of glasnost and improved foreign relations to explore a hitherto obscure subject. The way in which the civil space program obtains approval and funding is altered. Missions must be approved before the Supreme Soviet, and public opinion is beginning to play a greater role in the legislature's budget decision. The Soviet civil space program remains a collection of disparate elements, not unified by any national, centralized space agency. An attempt was made to catalog and delineate the relationships between the components proves helpful. There is little or no coordination of independent associations' efforts, and the planning process relied on previously to set priorities and allocate resources appears to be currently inoperative or in a state of flux. The civil space program is moving in new directions: toward budget tautness, more international interactions, an emphasis on civilian over military applications, commercialization, and fiscal accountability. This study is a snapshot of a dynamic subject, but hopefully on which has highlighted the critical elements to track.
Document ID
19920015935
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Newton, Elizabeth K. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1990
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:190306
NASA-CR-190306
JPL-D-7513
Accession Number
92N25178
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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