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Inside NASA

Inside NASA

High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program

by Howard E. McCurdy
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/10/1994

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"Inside NASA" explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle "Challenger" and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space programme and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA was formed. To launch the expeditions to the moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force ballistic-missile programme. Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing - along with the normal ageing process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole - gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.
ISBN:
9780801849756
9780801849756
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-10-1994
Language:
English
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
232
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x13mm
Weight:
0.31kg

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