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government-space-agency-bureaucracy
The Perihelion Foundation is depicted as a government agency layered over NASA, driving space program initiatives in ways that traditional NASA leadership might not have anticipated.
1 chapter across 1 book
Spin (2006)Robert Charles Wilson
95. I stopped for breakfast at a roadside Denny's outside
The narrator stops for breakfast near Cocoa, Florida, where a waitress offers a moment of human kindness reflecting his transient state. He then arrives at the Perihelion Foundation compound, a government agency interfacing with NASA, where he reunites with Jason, who is clearly unwell but eager to show off the advanced space program facilities. The chapter reveals the bureaucratic and technological backdrop of the Spin project while hinting at Jason's deteriorating health.