Howard E. Mccurdy

Broschiertes Buch

Inside NASA

High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program

Beschreibung

'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 malfuncations. 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780801849756
• ISBN-10: 0801849756
• Artikelnr.: 21537700