Faster, better, cheaper : low-cost innovation in the U.S. space program

Faster, better, cheaper : low-cost innovation in the U.S. space program / Howard E. McCurdy.

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 cheaperas a management manifesto.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCurdy, Howard E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Series:New series in NASA history.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronautics > United States > Cost control.
Organizational effectiveness.
Astronautics > Technological innovations.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Astronautics > Cost control
Astronautics > Technological innovations
Organizational effectiveness
Outer space > Exploration > Cost control.
Outer space
United States
Online Access:Click for online access
Description
Summary: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 cheaperas a management manifesto.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 173 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
ISBN:0801872871
9780801872877
0801867207
9780801867200
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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