NASA spaceflight : a history of innovation /: a history of innovation. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy.
• Editors: Launius, Roger D; McCurdy, Howard E
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Partnerships for Innovation.2. The Origins and Flagship Project of NASA's International Program—The Ariel Case Study3. Global Instantaneous Telecommunications and the Development of Satellite Technology4. The Other Side of Moore's Law—The Apollo Guidance Computer, the Integrated Circuit, and the Mircoelectronics Revolution, 1962–19755. NASA's Mission Control Center—The Space Program's Capitol as Innovative Capital6. Lessons of Landsat—From Experimental Program to Commercial Land Imaging, 1969–19897. Selling the Space Shuttle—Early Developments8. Something Borrowed, Something Blue—Re-purposing NASA's Spacecraft9. Encouraging New Space Firms10. The Discovery Program—Competition, Innovation, and Risk in Planetary Exploration11. Partnerships for Innovation—The X-33/VentureStar12. Microgravity, Macro Investment—Overcoming International Space Station Utilization Challenges through Managerial Innovation12. NASA, Industry, and the Commercial Crew Development Program—The Politics of Partnership13. Conclusion—What Matters?.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 629.40973; Space flight -- History; Space flight -- History -- Case studies; Space flight -- Technological innovations -- History; Space flight -- Technological innovations -- History -- Case studies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319601137
• Related ISBNs: 9783319601120
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