The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs
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 scien…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-8542-6
- EAN: 9780801885426
- Produktnummer: 2469766
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.3 cm 429 g
- Gewicht: 429
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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