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Faster, Better, Cheaper
- Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program
Engelsk Hardback
Faster, Better, Cheaper
- Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program
Engelsk Hardback

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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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780801867200
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0801867207
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Udg. Dato:
20 feb 2002
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 feb 2002
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