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• W4385540481 abstract "TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 897 ment, Hartford insisted on thrusting in a hard-nosed manager with unlimited funds to get the engine right and on time, with three-shift, rather than one-shift, testing. And when CAD/CAM-trained engi­ neers appeared at the bottom end of the scale, it was P&WC that insisted that all senior executives visit Hartford for a three-day immersion in computers, returning home to find the new personal computers on their desks along with instructions that they could take them home if they wished to practice. Those interested in the Canadian tale may wish to look also at Bill Gunston’s story of Bristol engines’ Sir Roy Fedden, ByJupiter (1978), the large collection of works now available on Rolls-Royce, Fred W. Hotson’s The De Havilland Canada Story (1983), and Klaus-Richard Bohme’s scholarly The Growth of the Swedish Aircraft Industry, 1918— 1945 (in English, 1987). Each covers certain aspects of the method­ ology of technology in large and small countries. One story not mentioned, on which there is now a technical and a political study, is that of the Avro Arrow and its Orenda Iroquois engines—it was their cancellation in 1958 that suddenly made available to P&WC the right personnel just when expansion for the PT-6 required such people. Sullivan and Milberry cover the story from 1928 to the present both in text and in well-captioned pictures. On the whole it is all plain and straightforward. The reader could wish for a map of the Montreal area on which to locate Longueuil and for more on labor relations, but these are minor points in an otherwise most useful book. Robin Higiiam Dr. Higham, editor of Aerospace Historian from 1970 to 1988, and now editor emeritus, runs the Conference of Historic Aviation Writers and teaches aviation history at Kansas State University. Journey into Space: The First Three Decades ofSpace Exploration. By Bruce Murray. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. Pp. 381; illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $19.95. Many scientists, engineers, and managers who started their aero­ space or space science careers in the 1950s and 1960s are now retiring or approaching retirement. In the next ten years, memoirs will be plentiful, and one hopes they will be as interesting as the recollections of Bruce Murray, director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1976 to 1982. He was a bureaucrat who not only dared others to spend their money in pursuit of a vision but also entered the muck of national and institutional politics. In his recollections of the political and technical machinations of the first thirty years of space exploration, Murray displays a curious mixture of idealism and cynicism, naivete and clever pragmatism, that 898 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE is the hallmark of a visionary bureaucrat. The author comprehended the swirl of events around him and, to a certain extent, manipulated them. Yet he seems utterly mystified at the causes of change, assuming that the decline of public interest in funding large space programs translates somehow into a greater moral decay. The message behind his memoir is mixed. One part of what Murray seems to be saying is that the United States, like Portugal, has lost its glory as a nation of explorers. He fixes blame alternately on greedy contractors, timid engineers, shortsighted NASA managers, a miserly Congress, nefarious White House underlings, and uncaring chief executives. The other part of the message, however, is that the era of nationalism is dead and we must begin to think in terms of interna­ tionally cooperative deep space robotic missions as precursors to international manned exploration of the planets. In either case, it seems that Murray’s solution is to replace bad people with good people and spend more money. He denounces political engineering but fails to address the fact that bizarre annual funding rituals will be repeated endlessly unless some means other than congressional spending can be found to pay for space explora­ tion. Unquestionably this is a book that every student of space history should read, for it is both lucid and insightful. In a profession hopelessly waterlogged in a sea of indistinguishable acronyms, Mur­ ray’s..." @default.
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