Doing the Impossible George E. Mueller and the Management of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Slotkin, Arthur L. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Engineering.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

This excellent account of one of the most important personalities in early American human spaceflight history describes for the first time how George E. Mueller, the system manager of the human spaceflight program of the 1960s, applied the SPO methodology and other special considerations, resulting...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.