Program/Project Management Resource List #65

Revised Feb. 2008

Provided by the NASA Headquarters Library

NASA has worked with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) since it was founded in the Sixties. In the early days, NASA helped ISRO get started by providing it with sounding rockets, satellite launches, and the use of space-based resources like Landsat. ISRO launched its first satellite in 1980. ISRO has gone on to provide India with weather satellites, communications satellites, and Earth resource satellites. ISRO also launches satellites for other countries. Today, NASA and ISRO routinely share data from each other's satellites and fly instruments on each other's missions, including Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar probe. On Feb. 1, 2008, NASA and ISRO signed a framework agreement in which they would continue to work together in all avenues of space exploration, including manned spaceflight.

This pathfinder serves as an introduction to the ways that Americans and Indians can work together on projects and avoid the minefield of cultural misunderstanding. Please see International Cooperation in Space for items that generally apply to all international joint ventures in outer space.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

Books

American Astronautical Society. International Programs Committee. Seminar: International Space Cooperation: Non-U.S. Space Agencies. Washington, D.C.: American Astronautical Society, International Programs Committee, 1999.

TL788.4 .I48 1999 BOOKSTACKS

 

Harvey, Brian. The Japanese and Indian Space Programmes: Two Roads Into Space. New York, NY: Springer; Chichester, UK: Published in association with Praxis Pub., 2000.

TL789.8 .J3 H37 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

India. Department of Space. Annual Report. Bangalore, India: Dept. of Space, Government of India, 1992-1993 and 1998-1999.

TL789.8.I5 I53

 

Indian Space Research Organisation. Indian Space Programme. Bangalore, India: Indian Space Research Organisation, 1985.

QB500.266 .I4 I53 1985 BOOKSTACKS

 

Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna (ed.). Competition, Cooperation, and Research and Development: The Economics of Research Joint Ventures. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

HD45 .C625 1997 BOOKSTACKS

Articles and Reports

Burns, R. "America's Strategic Opportunity with India", Foreign Affairs, vol. LXXXVI, no. 6 (Nov. 2007), p. 131-146

Available through Wilson Select Plus

 

Krishna, Venni V. "Large public research systems: India's CSIR, the CNRS in France, and the CSIRO", Innovation: Management, Policy, and Practice, vol. IX, no. 2 (Sept. 2007), p. 192-202.

Available through ABI Inform

 

Metcalf, L., A. Bird, M. Shankarmahesh, et al. "Cultural tendencies in negotiation: A Comparison of Finland, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States", Journal of World Business, vol. XLI, no. 4 (Dec. 2006), p. 382-394.

Available through Wilson Select Plus

 

Purohit, Yasmin S., and Claire A. Simmers. "Power, Distance, and Uncertainty Avoidance: A Cross-national Examination of Their Impact on Conflict Management Modes", Journal of International Business Research, vol. V, no. 1 (2006), p. 1-19.

Available through ABI Inform

 

Singh, Seema. "India Shoots for the Moon", IEEE Spectrum, vol. XLIII, no. 12 (Dec. 2006), p. 16.

 

Sokolski, Henry (ed.). Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA, March 2007.

(ADA463365: (28 March 2007) DTIC)

Internet Resources

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. India-United States Conference on Space Science, Applications, and Commerce. 2004. [8 Feb. 2008]

http://www.aiaa.org/indiaus2004/index.cfm

 

Antrix Corporation. 14 Jan. 2008 [8 Feb. 2008]

http://www.antrix.gov.in/

Note: Antrix is the commercial arm of the Indian space program, much like Arianespace and SPOT are commercial arms of the French space program.

 

Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific. 2007 [8 Feb. 2008]

http://www.cssteap.org/

 

Indian Space Research Organization. 8 Feb. 2008 [8 Feb. 2008]

http://www.isro.org/

 

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Information, Communication and Space Technology Division. 2008 [8 Feb. 2008]

http://www.unescap.org/icstd/

 

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of Industry and Security. US-India High Technology Cooperation. Oct. 2007 [11 Feb. 2008]

http://www.bis.doc.gov/internationalprograms/indiacooperation.htm