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NACA to NASA to now : the frontiers of air and space in the American century

Roger D. Launius, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2022

NACA to NASA to Now: The Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Century tells the story of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and its successor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The NACA and NASA [...]

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Leadership moments from NASA : achieving the impossible

Dave Williams, Author ; Elizabeth Howell, Author | [S.l.] : ECW Press | 2021

The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest talent? Space exploration is as much a story [...]

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Shaping science : organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA's teams /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Chicago scholarship online | 2021

"Shaping Science draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to involve robotic explorers gatherin[...]

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NASA and the long civil rights movement

Brian C. Odom, Editor ; Stephen P. Waring, Editor | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2019

As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examine[...]

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Three Sigma leadership : or, the way of the chief engineer : leadership skills for NASA's Corps of Chief Engineers

Steven R. Hirshorn, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2019

Three Sigma Leadership is a practical guide through the challenges of leadership. It provides an overview of 24 key leadership skills, each described fully and backed with relevant real-life experiences from the author’s career. NASA sets the b[...]

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The view from space : NASA's evolving struggle to understand our home planet

Richard Leshner, Author ; Thor Hogan, Author | [S.l.] : University Press of Kansas | Environment and society | 2019

In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planet's environment from space. With the Earth Observing System (EOS) as its technological cornerstone, MTPE's main goal was to [...]

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Nasa spaceflight : a history of innovation

Roger D. Launius, Editor ; Howard E. McCurdy, Editor | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2018

This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since the beginning of space[...]

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The Penguin book of outer space exploration : NASA and the incredible story of human spaceflight /

John M. Logsdon, Editor ; Bill Nye, Author of introduction, etc. | [S.l.] : Penguin Books | 2018

Using items in the NASA archive together with expert narrative guidance, this history of how Americans got to space begins with Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars and ends with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there. It covers t[...]

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Science advice to NASA : conflict, consensus, partnership, leadership

Joseph K. Alexander, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | Monographs in Aerospace History | 2017

NASA has a long tradition of interacting closely with and inviting advice from the scientific community, which is integral to the culture of its scientific programs. In this newly published monograph, the author looks at two main sources of scie[...]

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The birth of NASA : the work of the space task group, america's first true space pioneers

Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2016

This title shows the work of the original NASA space pioneers - men and women who were suddenly organised in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed[...]

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Historical guide to NASA and the space program

Ann Beardsley, Author ; C. Tony Garcia, Author ; Joseph Sweeney, Author | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield | 2016

The Historical Guide to NASA and the Space Program contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on space missions, astronauts, technical terms, sp[...]

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Leadership, change, and public-private partnerships : a case study of NASA and the transition from Space Shuttle to commercial space flight

W. Henry Lambright, Author | [S.l.] : IBM Center for the Business of Government | Improving performance series | 2016

This report explores how NASA leaders have leveraged public-private partnerships to replace the space shuttle, while developing new policy mechanisms to enable private companies to take over cargo and astronaut transport to the International Spa[...]

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NASA assessment of major projects

Washington (United States) : U.S. Government Accountability Office | 2016

This report provides GAO's annual snapshot of how well NASA is planning and executing its major acquisition projects. In March 2015, GAO found that projects continued a general positive trend of limiting cost and schedule growth, maturing techno[...]

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NASA space technology roadmaps and priorities revisited

National Research Council (U.S.) ; Steering Committee for NASA Technology Roadmaps. (United States), Author | Washington : The National Academies Press | 2016

NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) has begun to rebuild the advanced space technology program in the agency with plans laid out in 14 draft technology roadmaps. It has been years since NASA has had a vigorous, broad-based program in a[...]

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Emblems of exploration : logos of the NACA and NASA /

Joseph R. Chambers, Author ; Mark A. Chambers, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2015

This publication's first objective is to convey detailed information regarding the designers and design process for the emblems of NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The second objective is to brie[...]

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Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight /

Margaret Lazarus Dean, Author | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press | 2015

Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathe[...]

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Spies and shuttles : NASA's secret relationships with the DOD and CIA /

James E. David, Author | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2015

Author James David tells the inside story of how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, performing covert operations such as flying over sensitive areas, launching secret telecommunications[...]

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We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program /

Richard Paul, Author ; Steven Moss, Author | [S.l.] : University of Texas Press | 2015

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the spac[...]

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Innovation the NASA way : harnessing the power of your organization for breakthrough success /

Rod Pyle, Author | New York (United States) : McGraw-Hill Education | 2014

Space exploration may be NASA's mission, but its innovative leadership practices are founded on solid, down-to-earth methods anyone can apply, anywhere. Pyle has used the agency's unique methods for driving innovation to train leaders of Fortune[...]

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Public-Private Partnerships for space capability development : driving economic growth and NASA's mission

The Tauri Group (United States), Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2014

This report is the result of a study into potential areas of public-private partnership for space capability development that could meet NASA's mission objectives, and generate significant economic returns to the American economy

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NASA's first A : aeronautics from 1958 to 2008 /

Robert G. Ferguson, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2013

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NASA in the world : fifty years of international collaboration in space /

John Krige, Author ; Angelina Long Callahan, Author ; Ashok Maharaj, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2013

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NASA's strategic direction and the need for a national consensus

National Research Council (U.S.) ; Committee on NASA's Strategic Direction. (United States), Issuing body | Washington : The National Academies Press | 2012

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely admired for astonishing accomplishments since its formation in 1958. Looking ahead over a comparable period of time, what can the nation and the world expect of NASA? What will b[...]

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NASA space technology roadmaps and priorities : restoring NASA's technological edge and paving the way for a new era in space

National Research Council (U.S.) ; Steering Committee for NASA Technology Roadmaps. (United States), Author | Washington : The National Academies Press | 2012

NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) has begun to rebuild the advanced space technology program in the agency with plans laid out in 14 draft technology roadmaps. It has been years since NASA has had a vigorous, broad-based program in a[...]

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NASA strategic space technology investment plan

National Aeronautics and Space Administration., Issuing body | [S.l.] : NASA Headquarters | 2012

The NASA Strategic Space Technology Investment Plan (NASA SSTIP) is a comprehensive strategic plan that prioritizes space technologies essential to the pursuit of NASA's mission and achievement of national goals.

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Reusable booster system : review and assessment

National Research Council (U.S.) ; Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board., Issuing body | Washington : The National Academies Press | 2012

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Suddenly, tomorrow came : the NASA history of the Johnson Space Center /

Henry C. Dethloff, Author ; United States: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Issuing body | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2012

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Controlling cost growth of NASA Earth and space science missions

Washington : The National Academies Press | 2010

"Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book identifies specific causes of cost growth associ[...]

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An enabling foundation for NASA's Earth and space science missions

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions. | Washington : The National Academies Press | 2010

Overview of the science mission directorate's mission-enabling activities -- Assessment of NASA's mission-enabling activities -- Principles and metrics for managing effective mission-enabling portfolios -- Maximizing program effectiveness throug[...]

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NASA's first 50 years : historical perspectives

Steven J. Dick, Editor ; United States., Editor ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration., Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2010

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