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

• Main Author: Slotkin, Arthur L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.