Reinventing Nasa

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing NASA written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Handberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016135
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing NASA written by Roger Handberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namely through human space flight. Pursuit of such a goal has led the agency to persist in certain activities even when they conflict with the wishes of Congress and the President. Recent changes in the international environment, changes that began well before September 11, 2001, have brought the military back into the field of human space flight, a situation that holds certain hazards for NASA since the military is more powerful politically. Dramatic changes could be in store, changes that could severely damage NASA's capacity for continuing what it sees as its primary objective. While most analyses see the agency as riddled with incompetence, Handberg argues that NASA's troubles are a product of its internal values. He begins with an historical overview of the major themes in NASA's history, followed by chapters on specific areas of concentration, such as the space station, space transportation, space science, and internal reforms. He also discusses the long-term future of the agency and human space flight in general, both domestically and internationally.

Author : David H. Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing NASA written by David H. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates NASA's strategy for coping with the expectation of lower funding in the future. Develops a set of illustrative alternatives that would reduce the scope of NASA's mission. Charts and tables.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing NASA written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA's Mars Program After the Young Report, Parts I & II written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA's Mission to Planet Earth Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julianne G. Mahler
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589016025
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Learning at NASA written by Julianne G. Mahler and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation found chilling similarities between the two accidents, leading the Columbia Accident Investigation Board to conclude that NASA failed to learn from its earlier tragedy. Despite the frequency with which organizations are encouraged to adopt learning practices, organizational learning—especially in public organizations—is not well understood and deserves to be studied in more detail. This book fills that gap with a thorough examination of NASA’s loss of the two shuttles. After offering an account of the processes that constitute organizational learning, Julianne G. Mahler focuses on what NASA did to address problems revealed by Challenger and its uneven efforts to institutionalize its own findings. She also suggests factors overlooked by both accident commissions and proposes broadly applicable hypotheses about learning in public organizations.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiscal Year 1996 NASA Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
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Download or read book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2001: National Aeronautics and Space Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Pappalardo
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468315641
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Spaceport Earth written by Joe Pappalardo and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tackles the ever-changing, twenty-first-century space industry and what privately funded projects like Elon Musk’s SpaceX mean for the future of space travel.” —Foreign Policy Creating a seismic shift in today’s space industry, private sector companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use, but for any paying customer. At the heart of this space revolution are spaceports, the center and literal launching pads of spaceflight. Spaceports cost hundreds of millions of dollars, face extreme competition, and host operations that do not tolerate failures—which can often be fatal. Aerospace journalist Joe Pappalardo has witnessed space rocket launches around the world, from the jungle of French Guiana to the coastline of California. In his comprehensive work Spaceport Earth, Pappalardo describes the rise of private companies and how they are reshaping the way the world is using space for industry and science. Spaceport Earth is a travelogue through modern space history as it is being made, offering space enthusiasts, futurists, and technology buffs a close perspective of rockets and launch sites, and chronicling the stories of industrial titans, engineers, government officials, billionaires, schemers, and politicians who are redefining what it means for humans to be a spacefaring species. “Private companies and rich people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have taken over the exploration of space. Pappalardo explores this new sort of spacefaring at the outer reaches of business and technology.” —The New York Times “For anyone obsessed with how spaceflight grew into what it is today, this book is a must-have.” —Popular Mechanics