Rather than examining only the civil or military side of the U.S. space program, as have many books in the past, Space, the Dormant Frontier takes a unique look at the space program as a whole. Part of the book's treatise is that the two communities must stop ignoring each other if the U.S. space program is to move forward beyond being a science project, jobs program, or political football. How the program got into its current, semi-desperate state...