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Title:
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Doing the impossible : George E. Mueller and the running of NASA's Human Spaceflight Program /
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Authors:
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Arthur L. Slotkin, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York, NY : Springer, 2012
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-4614-3700-0
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Format:
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xxv, 306 p. / ill. (some col.) / 25 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL789.85.A3M84
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Subjects:
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Manned space flight--History
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Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin)
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Project Apollo (U.S.)
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Spaceflight--History
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History
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Description:
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This account of one of the most important personalities in early American human spaceflight history describes for the first time how George E. Mueller, the system manager of the human spaceflight program of the 1960s, applied the SPO methodology and other special considerations, resulting in the sucess of the Apollo Program. While Wenher von Braun and others did not readily accept Mueller's approach to system management, they later acknowledged that without it Nasa would not have landed astronauts on the Moon by 1969. While Apollo remained Mueller's priority, from his earliest days at the agency he promoted a robust post-Apollo program, which culminated in Skylab, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station. As a result of these efforts, Mueller earned the sobriquet: "the father of Space Shuttle".
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Contents note:
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1. Reorganizing 2. Program management 3. Getting ready 4. Resuming flight 5. Learning, developing and planning 6. Peaks and valleys 7. Recovery 8. All-up testing 9. Orbiting the Moon 10. A railroad in space
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Format :
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In print
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