NASA Spaceflight

NASA Spaceflight

A History of Innovation

McCurdy, Howard E.; Launius, Roger D.

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2017

402

Dura

Inglês

9783319601120

15 a 20 dias

6518


ebook

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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?
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NASA and US politics;economics of the space race;innovation and space technology in the 20th century;spaceflight and economic policy;aeronautical and astronautical economics;development of satellite technology;history of the Apollo Guidance Computer;NASA and the history of computing;history of Landsat;history of the Discovery Program;management of the International Space Station;civil space policy;public-private partnerships in space policy;us politics