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Howard E. McCurdy

School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C

Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Washington, D.C

Dr. Howard McCurdy divides his time a professor between the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C, and the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he is helping to organize their science and technology policy program.  Author or co-author of seven books on the U.S. space program, he is known for Space and the American Imagination, winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, and Inside NASA, a study of NASA’s organizational culture that received the Henry Adams prize for that year’s best history on the federal government.  He authored Faster, Better, Cheaper, a critical analysis of cost-cutting initiatives in the U.S. space program and recently published Robots in Space, coauthored with Roger D. Launius, which examines the continuing controversy between advocates of human and robotic space flight.  Dr. McCurdy is often consulted by the media on space policy issues and has appeared on national news outlets such as the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, and NBC Nightly News.  He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Washington and his doctorate from Cornell University.