Faster, Better, Cheaper

Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7749-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: New Series in NASA History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccurdy, Howard E.

Launius, Roger D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Luftverkehr

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Boxes
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Reform
Chapter 2. The Nature of the Challenge
Chapter 3. Cost Control
Chapter 4. The Philosophy
Chapter 5. Mars Pathfinder
Chapter 6. Organization
Chapter 7. Technology
Chapter 8. Risk and Reliability
Chapter 9. Future Implications
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mccurdy, Howard E.
Howard E. McCurdy is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and the author of Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program; Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program; and the coauthor of Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel, all published by Johns Hopkins.

Howard E. McCurdy is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University.