Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.

PART I: 50 YEARS OF NASA AND THE WORLD (John Krige) 1. Introduction and Historical Overview: NASA's International Relations in Space PART II: NASA AND WESTERN EUROPE (John Krige) 2. NASA, Space Science and Western Europe 3. Technology Transfer with Western Europe: NASA-ELDO Relations in the 1960s 4. European Participation in the Post-Apollo Program, 1969-70: The Paine Years 5. European Participation in the post-Apollo Program, 1971: The US Begins to Have Second Thoughts - and So Do the Europeans 6. European Participation in the post-Apollo Program. 1972. Disentangling the Alliance. The Victory of Clean Interfaces PART III: NASA AND THE SOVIET UNION / RUSSIA (Angelina Long Callahan) 7. Sustaining Soviet-American Collaboration, 1957-1989 8. Russian-American Cooperation in Space: Privatization, Remuneration and Collective Security PART IV: NASA'S RELATIONS WITH JAPAN AND INDIA (Ashok Maharaj) 9. An Overview of NASA-Japan Relations: From Pencil Rockets to the International Space Station 10. NASA and the Politics of Delta Launch Vehicle Technology Transfer to Japan 11. An Overview of NASA-India Relations 12. Satellite Broadcasting in Rural India: The SITE Project PART V: INTO THE 21ST CENTURY (John Krige) 13. Space Collaboration Today: The ISS 14. The Impact of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)