Reinventing NASA [[electronic resource] ] : human space flight, bureaucracy, and politics / / Roger Handberg

• Autore: Handberg Roger
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 354.79
• Soggetto topico: Astronautics - Political aspects - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 NASA and Defining the Dream; 2 In the Beginning; 3 An Imploding Agency: Post-Challenger Blues; 4 Inadvertent Political Catalyst: The Space Station Freedom; 5 Fixing Space Launch; 6 ""Faster, Better, Cheaper?""; 7 Reinventing Government: Efficiency Comes to NASA; 8 Organizational Change as Goal-Directed Behavior; 9 The Future of NASA; Afterword: Columbia and the Future; Appendix: Outlays for Space; Selected References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namely through human space flight. Pursuit of such a goal has led the agency to persist in certain activities even when they conflict with the wishes of Congress and the President. Recent changes in the international environment, changes that began well before September 11, 2001, have brought the military back into the field of human space flight, a situation that holds certain hazards for NASA since the military is more powerful politically. Dramatic ch
• Titolo autorizzato: Reinventing NASA
• ISBN: 1-280-34891-7; 9786610348916; 0-313-01613-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451247103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II