Doing the Impossible: George E. Mueller and the Management of Nasa's Human Spaceflight Program

Slotkin, Arthur L.

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2012-07-25
  • 售價: $2,020
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,919
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 306
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1461437008
  • ISBN-13: 9781461437000
  • 相關分類: 專案管理 PM管理與領導 Management-leadership
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Illustrations.- Tables.- Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Reorganizing.- Chapter 2: Program management.- Chapter 3: Getting Ready.- Chapter 4: Resuming Flight.- Chapter 5: Learning, developing, and planning.- Chapter 6: Peaks and valleys.- Chapter 7: Recovery.- Chapter 8: All-up testing.- Chapter 9: Orbiting the Moon.- Chapter 10: A railroad in space.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Abbreviations.- Index.

作者簡介

With degrees in aerospace engineering, Arthur L. Slotkin worked for the AIAA and wrote about the space program In the early 1970s. Joining the System Development Corporation he assisted George E. Mueller and continued to support him after Mueller's retirement in 1983. After a 30 year career in the computer software and services industry, Slotkin earned another graduate degree in the history of technology and spent the last eight years researching and writing this book. The ideas and innovations Mueller brought to NASA from the Air Force ballistic missile program are highlighted.