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NASA
This edition discusses the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. Article topics include the future of the NASA space program, issues surrounding the space shuttle program, NASA funding, and NASA's role in diplomatic and scientific affairs. Essays are arranged in a pro versus con format that debate several provocative issues relating to NASA. Sources include The Economist, Christian Science Monitor, Newt Gingrich, Robert S. Walker, and Mona Charen.
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Review: NASAEach volume in the Opposing Viewpoints series could serve as a model...not only providing access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, the selectionsby experts, policy makers, and concerned citizensinclude complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations...all up to date and fully documented. The editing is intelligent and unobtrusive, organizing the material around substantive issues within the general debate. Brief introductions to each section and to each reading focus the questions raised and offer no slick answers.BooklistRL
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10-12+ IL
Grades
9-12+ 
