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Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission - Couverture souple

Administration, National Aeronautics And Space; McCurdy, Howard E.

 
9781493656530: Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission
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ISBN 10 : 1493656538 ISBN 13 : 9781493656530
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

On a spring day in 1996, at their research center in the Maryland countryside, representatives from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) presented Administrator Daniel S. Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with a check for $3.6 million. Two and a half years earlier, APL officials had agreed to develop a spacecraft capable of conducting an asteroid rendezvous and to do so for slightly more than $122 million. This was a remarkably low sum for a spacecraft due to conduct a planetary class mission. By contrast, the Mars Observer spacecraft launched in 1992 for an orbital rendezvous with the red planet had cost $479 million to develop, while the upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn required a spacecraft whose total cost was approaching $1.4 billion. In an Agency accustomed to cost overruns on major missions, the promise to build a planetary-class spacecraft for about $100 million seemed excessively optimistic.

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À propos de l'auteur

Howard E. McCurdy is a professor of public administration at the American University in Washington,DC. He is the author of four books on space ("The Space Station Decision;" "Inside NASA;" "Space and the American Imagination;" and "Faster, Better, Cheaper"). In addition, with Roger D. Launius, he has coedited "Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership" and coauthored "Imagining Space." He lives in Maryland.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1493656538
ISBN 13 
9781493656530
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
84
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