The Secret of Apollo : Systems Management in American and European Space Programs Paperback / softback
by Stephen B. (Clifford Hall, Room 512) Johnson
Part of the New Series in NASA History series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 20 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:26/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780801885426
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 20 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:26/12/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801885426
