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Doing the Impossible George E. Mueller and the Management of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program

This excellent 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slotkin, Arthur L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Space Exploration
Subjects:
Aerospace Technology And Astronautics
Astronautics
Aerospace Engineering
Astronomy / Observations
Space Physics
Astronomy, Observations And Techniques
History Of Science
Science / History
Solar System
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Reorganizing
  • Chapter 2: Program management
  • Chapter 3: Getting Ready
  • Chapter 4: Resuming Flight
  • Chapter 5: Learning, developing, and planning
  • Chapter 6: Peaks and valleys
  • Chapter 7: Recovery
  • Chapter 8: All-up testing
  • Chapter 9: Orbiting the Moon
  • Chapter 10: A railroad in space
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations
  • Index

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