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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1994
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Paperback. "Inside NASA" explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle "Challenger" and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space programme and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA was formed. To launch the expeditions to the moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force ballistic-missile programme. Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing - along with the normal ageing process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole - gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength. Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing-along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole-gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …
Codice articolo 9780801849756
- Titolo
- Inside NASA (Paperback)
- Autore
- Howard E. McCurdy
- Editore
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 1994
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 0801849756
- ISBN 13
- 9780801849756
Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space program and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms, and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally, the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA was formed. To launch the expeditions to the moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force ballistic-missile program. Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing—along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole—gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.
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Informazioni sull’autore
Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs at the American University. He is the author of The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technical Choice, also available from Johns Hopkins.
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