The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs (New Series in NASA History) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 13: New Series in NASA History

Johnson, Stephen B. B.

 
9780801885426: The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs (New Series in NASA History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801885426 ISBN 13: 9780801885426
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society

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. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of "systems engineering" as such, its origins in the Air Force's Cold War ICBM efforts, and its migration to not only NASA but the European Space Agency.

Exploring the history and politics of aerospace development and weapons procurement, Johnson examines how scientists and engineers created the systems management process to coordinate large-scale technology development, and how managers and military officers gained control of that process. "Those funding the race demanded results," Johnson explains. "In response, development organizations created what few expected and what even fewer wanted—a bureaucracy for innovation. To begin to understand this apparent contradiction in terms, we must first understand the exacting nature of space technologies and the concerns of those who create them."

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Stephen B. Johnson is an associate professor of space studies at the University of North Dakota.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801885426
ISBN 13 
9780801885426
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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