Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program - Couverture souple

McCurdy, Prof Howard E. E.

 
9780801849756: Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801849756 ISBN 13 : 9780801849756
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government

Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space program and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms, and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally, the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA was formed. To launch the expeditions to the moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force ballistic-missile program. Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing—along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole—gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801849756
ISBN 13 
9780801849756
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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ISBN 10 :  0801844525 ISBN 13 :  9780801844522
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
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