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Secret of Apollo:

Systems Management in American and European Space Programs
  • ISBN-13: 9780801885426
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Stephen B. Johnson
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2006
  • Format: Paperback 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer—systems management—in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists, and, eventually, bureaucrats. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of ''systems engineering'' as such, its origins in the Air Force's Cold War ICBM efforts, and its migration to not only NASA but the European Space Agency.Exploring the history and politics of aerospace development and weapons procurement, Johnson examines how scientists and engineers created the systems management process to coordinate large-scale technology development, and how managers and military officers gained control of that process. ''Those funding the race demanded results,'' Johnson explains. ''In response, development organizations created what few expected and what even fewer wanted—a bureaucracy for innovation. To begin to understand this apparent contradiction in terms, we must first understand the exacting nature of space technologies and the concerns of those who create them.''


Contents:

Introduction: Managment and the Conrol of Research

Social and Technical Issues of Spaceflight

Creating Concurrency

From Concurrency to Systems Managment

JPL's Journey from Missiles to Space

Organizing the Manned Space Program

Organizing ELDO for Failure

ERSO's American Bridge across the Managment Gap

Coordination and Control of High-Tech Research and Development

""Well written and engaging in style.""

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