As Christopher Hitchens writes in his Preface, this is 'an idiosyncratic, unillusioned tour of the sixties that has few if any rivals', idiosyncratic because the worlds of politics and international crises seem to happen off-stage.
Layered Service Provider. Layered Service Provider (LSP) is a deprecated feature of the Microsoft Windows Winsock 2 Service Provider Interface (SPI). A Layered Service Provider is a DLL that uses Winsock APIs to attempt to insert itself into the TCP/IP protocol stack.
LSP interfaces between the rocket and NASA unmanned spacecraft. The rockets, or launch vehicles, are actually owned by companies, not NASA. So LSP has to be the rocket experts for NASA, making sure that what happens on the launch vehicle side is best for the spacecraft.