NASA History Community:
We are very pleased to announce the availability of our latest NASA History Series publication,
NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration
(NASA SP-2023-4238). In it, author Susan M. Niebur drew on interviews with managers, engineers, and scientists from Discovery’s early missions to take an in-depth, yet accessible, look at the management techniques in this
innovative Science Mission Directorate program of robotic spacecraft.
Reflecting a special team effort, editor David Brown took her unfinished draft and shaped it to create a very readable,
informative publication. Dr. Michael J. Neufeld of the National Air & Space Museum wrote an outstanding foreword that puts this notable program in its historical context. Finally, Dr. Curt Niebur contributed an excellent summary afterword. Overall, the book
explains how program participants developed the creative and cost-effective Discovery missions that continue to generate ground-breaking scientific data and insights.
A free
digital copy
of this
book is available
from https://www.nasa.gov/history/nasas-discovery-program
online. Hard copies of this book are also available free from the NASA Headquarters Information Center,
info-center@hq.nasa.gov, 202-358-000, 300 E St. SW, Suite 1U72, Washington, DC 20546.
Please feel free to forward this information, including the attached summary, to others who may be interested. Happy new year!
-Steve
Stephen Garber
(he/him)
NASA History Division
Office of Communications
NASA Headquarters
Mary W. Jackson Building, Room 5P25
Washington, DC 20546
202-358-0385
