Provides the first-ever comprehensive history of NASA innovation Features leading experts on aerospace history, the history of technology, and space policyOffers numerous case studies showing how NASA has used partnerships, competition, and cost-sharing to encourage innovation and restrain costs

Provides the first-ever comprehensive history of NASA innovation Features leading experts on aerospace history, the history of technology, and space policy Offers numerous case studies showing how NASA has used partnerships, competition, and cost-sharing to encourage innovation and restrain costs Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Roger D. Launius has written or edited more than thirty books on aerospace history, most recently Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce (2014), and Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned (2013).
Howard E. McCurdy is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, USA. He is the author of numerous works on the national space program, including Inside NASA (1993), Faster, Better, Cheaper (2001), and Space and the American Imagination (rev. ed. 2011).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Partnerships for Innovation.- 2. The Origins and Flagship Project of NASA's International ProgramThe Ariel Case Study.- 3. Global Instantaneous Telecommunications and the Development of Satellite Technology.- 4. The Other Side of Moore's LawThe Apollo Guidance Computer, the Integrated Circuit, and the Mircoelectronics Revolution, 19621975.- 5. NASA's Mission Control CenterThe Space Program's Capitol as Innovative Capital.- 6. Lessons of LandsatFrom Experimental Program to Commercial Land Imaging, 19691989.- 7. Selling the Space ShuttleEarly Developments.- 8. Something Borrowed, Something BlueRe-purposing NASA's Spacecraft.- 9. Encouraging New Space Firms.- 10. The Discovery ProgramCompetition, Innovation, and Risk in Planetary Exploration.- 11. Partnerships for InnovationThe X-33/VentureStar.- 12. Microgravity, Macro InvestmentOvercoming International Space Station Utilization Challenges through Managerial Innovation.- 12. NASA, Industry, and the CommercialCrew Development ProgramThe Politics of Partnership.- 13. ConclusionWhat Matters?