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The Secret of Apollo

Systems Management in American and European Space Programs

Stephen B. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2002
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6898-6 (ISBN)

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How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer - systems management - in a study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists and, eventually, bureaucrats. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of "systems engineering" as such, its origins in the Air Force's Cold War ICBM efforts, and its migration to not only NASA but the European Space Agency. Exploring the history and politics of aerospace development and weapons procurement, Johnson examines how scientists and engineers created the systems management process to co-ordinate large-scale technology development, and how managers and military officers gained control of that process. "Those funding the race demanded results", Johnson explains. "In response, development organizations created what few expected and what even fewer wanted - a bureaucracy for innovation. To begin to understand this apparent contradiction in terms, we must first understand the exacting nature of space technologies and the concerns of those who create them".

Stephen B. Johnson is an associate professor of space studies at the University of North Dakota.

1. Introduction: Managment and the Conrol of Research
2. Social and Technical Issues of Spaceflight
3. Creating Concurrency
4. From Concurrency to Systems Managment
5. JPL's Journey from Missiles to Space
6. Organizing the Manned Space Program
7. Organizing ELDO for Failure
8. ERSO's American Bridge across the Managment Gap
9. Coordination and Control of High-Tech Research and Development

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.2002
Reihe/Serie	New Series in NASA History
Zusatzinfo	20 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-8018-6898-X / 080186898X
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-6898-6 / 9780801868986
Zustand	Neuware