Robert Zimmerman is a returning Space Show guest, an award winning science writer and space historian, a producer and screenwriter of feature films, documentaries, industrials, and commercials, and author of the current best selling book, "Leaving Earth." During this program, Mr. Zimmerman provides us with an in-depth analysis of the new space policy initiative put forward by President Bush. In looking at this proposal in detail, he also looks at NASA, its current structure and what the new policy proposal does for reforming NASA versus maintaining its status quo. Drawing upon his research, historical expertise, personal interviews with those that made the space history, both in the former Soviet Union and the United States, Zimmerman is able to show us how government policy has been impacted in each nation by central planning, bureaucratic decision making, and space policy promotion. He correctly shows how the Russian space program differs from what went on in the former Soviet Union and how NASA and the United States have taken on more and more characteristics of the centrally planned type programming which was prevalent in the Soviet Union but is not in today's Russia. Zimmerman is able to bring the varied components of his analysis together to help us understand the new Bush space policy program, to see ways that this policy could be carried out with a far more likelihood of success and with far more support from the American people with significantly more benefits for the American people than what will afford us in the centrally planned, top down program suggested by Mr. Bush. For those interested in a serious look at this new space policy initiative, don't miss this program.
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