Howard E. Mccurdy

The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice

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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 bureaucrats. This work examines the history of this controversial initiative.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8018-8749-9
EAN: 9780801887499
Produktnummer: 3089312
Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 316 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.4 cm 507 g
Gewicht: 507
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Howard E. McCurdy is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and the author of Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program; Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program; and the coauthor of Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel, all published by Johns Hopkins.