Beyond Horizons : A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership

Tells the story of the U.S. Air Force (AF) in space, on the 50th ann'y. as an independent branch of the armed serv. Chapters: The Dawn of the Space Age; Before Sputnik: the AF Enters the Space Age, 1945-1957; From Eisenhower to Kennedy: The Nat. Space Program & the AF's Quest for the Mil. Space Mission, 1958-1961; The AF in the Era of Apollo: A Dream Unfulfilled; From the Ground Up: The Path from Experiment to Oper's.; Organizing for Space: The AF Commits to Space & an Operational Space Command; From Star Wars to the Gulf War: The AF Moves to Create an Operational Capability for Space; Coming of Age: Oper. Desert Storm & Normalizing Mil. Space Oper's.; & An AF Vision for the Mil. Space Mission: A Roadmap to the 21st Cent.Spires, David N. is the author of 'Beyond Horizons : A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756736705 and ISBN 0756736706.