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NASA Spaceflight

A History of Innovation

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-319-60112-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erscheinungstermin: 23.10.2017
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Provides the first-ever comprehensive history of NASA innovation Features leading experts on aerospace history, the history of technology, and space policyOffers numerous case studies showing how NASA has used partnerships, competition, and cost-sharing to encourage innovation and restrain costs


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783319601120
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-60112-0
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Erscheinungstermin: 23.10.2017
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
  • Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 6518 g
  • Seiten: 402
  • Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 28 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

1. Introduction: Partnerships for Innovation.- 2. The Origins and Flagship Project of NASA's International Program—The Ariel Case Study.- 3. Global Instantaneous Telecommunications and the Development of Satellite Technology.- 4. The Other Side of Moore's Law—The Apollo Guidance Computer, the Integrated Circuit, and the Mircoelectronics Revolution, 1962–1975.- 5. NASA's Mission Control Center—The Space Program's Capitol as Innovative Capital.- 6. Lessons of Landsat—From Experimental Program to Commercial Land Imaging, 1969–1989.- 7. Selling the Space Shuttle—Early Developments.- 8. Something Borrowed, Something Blue—Re-purposing NASA's Spacecraft.- 9. Encouraging New Space Firms.- 10. The Discovery Program—Competition, Innovation, and Risk in Planetary Exploration.- 11. Partnerships for Innovation—The X-33/VentureStar.- 12. Microgravity, Macro Investment—Overcoming International Space Station Utilization Challenges through Managerial Innovation.- 12. NASA, Industry, and the CommercialCrew Development Program—The Politics of Partnership.- 13. Conclusion—What Matters?