to slip the surly bonds

This book enters into the world of NASA and tells the story of not just why the shuttle disasters happened, but exposes NASA' s Inner workings. NASA has been gutted by various presidential administrations ,Congress has as also had a field day with budget cuts,devastating the program with pork barrel projects and confusion regarding US and its place in the space program.NASA,too has been its own worst enemy due to static, bureaucratic way of doing internal business.