Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the

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and policy department at

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. McCurdy is considered an expert on space policy and

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. In 1998, he was selected to be the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, a one-year fellowship at the

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. McCurdy received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the

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and his Ph.D. from

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Elizabeth Hand Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer. Life and career Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine ...

reviewed McCurdy's history of the

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: "In ''Space and the American Imagination'', Howard McCurdy doesn't give us the right stuff but the real stuff, the minutiae of policy debate and political razzing that brought the space program into being and seems destined to bury it. It's a meandering, sometimes confusingly organized book, but an important one. McCurdy's prose style is understated and occasionally drab, but free of annoying postmodern tics . . . the book assembles a fascinating congeries of facts and fictions about trips to the moon, real or imagined."

Publications

* McCurdy, Howard E. with

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, editors, ''Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration'',

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, 2006. * McCurdy, Howard E., ''Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program'',

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, 2001. * McCurdy, Howard E.,
Space and the American Imagination
',

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, 1997, *
revised second edition

, 2011,

References

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