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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Johnson, Stephen B., 1959- Secret of Apollo. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2001005688 (OCoLC)48003131 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen B Johnson |
ISBN: | 0801876184 9780801876189 9780801868986 080186898X 9780801885426 0801885426 |
OCLC Number: | 51504397 |
Awards: | Winner of American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award 2004 (United States) |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction: management and the control of research and development -- Social and technical issues of spaceflight -- Creating concurrency -- From concurrency to systems management -- JPL's journey from missiles to space -- Organizing the manned space program -- Organizing ELDO for failure -- ESRO's American bridge across the management gap -- Coordination and control of high-tech research and development. |
Series Title: | New series in NASA history. |
Responsibility: | Stephen B. Johnson. |
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Well written and engaging in style. * Satellite Evolution Group * Johnson's in-depth, nuts-and-bolts manual sheds much light on a seldom studied secret of our recent space history. * Space Review * A book for general readers interested in business and management issues in the space program. * Choice * Johnson has been inspired by engineering to write good history. -- Jon Agar * British Journal for the History of Science * Soundly based on the secondary literature and on archival research in the United States and Europe and provides an excellent overview of the topic within Johnson's chosen boundaries . . . I can highly recommend Johnson's book to historians of both the Cold War military and civilian space programs. * Journal of Military History * Read more...


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