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Title: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER
LOW-COST INNOVATION IN THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM
By: Howard E. McCurdy
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0801867207
ISBN 13: 9780801867200
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Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 14 November, 2001
Series: New Series in NASA History
Pages: 192
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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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Publication: US
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Returns: Returnable
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