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Faster, Better, Cheaper:

Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program (POD)
  • ISBN-13: 9780801877490
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Howard E. McCurdy
  • Price: AUD $75.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2003
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Science: general issues [PD]
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In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s -- including an orbit of the moon, deployment of three space telescopes, four Earth-orbiting satellites, two rendezvous with comets and asteroids, and a test of an ion propulsion engine -- which cost less than the sum traditionally spent on a single, conventionally planned planetary mission. He shows how these missions employed smaller spacecraft and cheaper technology to undertake less complex and more specific tasks in outer space. While the technological innovation and space exploration approach that McCurdy describes is still controversial, the historical perspective on its disappointments and triumphs points to ways of developing ''faster, better, and cheaper'' as a management manifesto.


Contents:



List of Boxes

Acknowledgments



1 - The Reform

2 - The Nature of the Challenge

3 - Cost Control

4 - The Philosophy

5 - Mars Pathfinder

6 - Organization

7 - Technology

8 - Risk and Reliability

9 - Future Implications



Notes

Index

""It is an engaging story, and the book itself is small enough for bedtime reading.""

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