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Inside NASA
High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Häftad, 1994
468 kr
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Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy …
Powering Apollo
James E. Webb of NASA
Häftad, 2000
457 kr
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When President Kennedy issued his well-known challenge to reach the moon and return safely before the end of the 1960s, the immediate responsibility for undertaking the task fell to 54-year-old NASA director James E. Webb. Eight years later, when the Apollo II spacecraft splashed down safely in the …
NASA and the Space Industry
Häftad, 2001
430 kr
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Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a …
Single Stage to Orbit
Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry
Inbunden, 2004
644 kr
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While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama-the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. Here an award-winning student of space science, Andrew J. …
Faster, Better, Cheaper
Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program
Av Howard E. McCurdy, Roger D. Launius
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s-including an orbit of the moon, deployment of …
Secret of Apollo
Systems Management in American and European Space Programs
Häftad, 2006
392 kr
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How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer-systems management-in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists, and, eventually, bureaucrats. …
Space Station Decision
Incremental Politics and Technological Choice
Häftad, 2008
430 kr
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Outstanding Academic Title, 1991, Choice Magazine Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous task for …
High-Speed Dreams
NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Häftad, 2008
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In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing …
Robots in Space
Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel
Av Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy
Häftad, 2012
360 kr
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Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited …
To Touch the Face of God
The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957–1975
Inbunden, 2013
547 kr
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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited the first ten verses from the book of Genesis. In fact, many of …
Why Mars
NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration
Inbunden, 2014
611 kr
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Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA's establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. Remarkably successful with its roaming multi-billion-dollar robot, …
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Häftad, 2016
421 kr
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Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way …
Before Lift-off
The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
Inbunden, 1987
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Winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Prize from the American Astronautical Society For eight days in October 1984, seven men and women orbitied the Earth on Space Shuttle Mission 41-G. The mission has begun a year earlier; however, with the select of its crew. Before Lift-off is the …
Faster, Better, Cheaper
Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program
Inbunden, 2002
430 kr
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In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s-including an orbit of the moon, deployment of …
Taking Science to the Moon
Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program
Häftad, 2003
215 kr
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How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? Taking Science to the Moon describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloads and lunar exploration as part of the Apollo program. …
Atmospheric Science at NASA
A History
Inbunden, 2009
587 kr
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This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA's involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth's atmosphere and the weather created within it. This effort …
Dictionary of the Space Age
Av Paul Dickson
Inbunden, 2009
528 kr
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The launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 ushered in an exciting era of scientific and technological advancement. As television news anchors, radio hosts, and journalists reported the happenings of the American and the Soviet space programs to millions of captivated citizens, words that belonged to the …
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Inbunden, 2015
346 kr
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Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way …
