Reinventing NASA : human space flight, bureaucracy, and politics /

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Author / Creator:Handberg, Roger.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Description:xv, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5170602
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ISBN:0275970027 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • NASA and Defining the Dream In the Beginning
  • An Imploding Agency: Post-Challenger Blues Inadvertent
  • Political Catalyst: The Space Station
  • Freedom Fixing Space Launch "Faster, Better, Cheaper?"
  • Reinventing Government: Efficiency Comes to NASA
  • Organizational Change as Goal-Directed Behavior
  • The Future of NASA Afterword: Columbia and the Future
  • Appendix: Outlays for Space
  • Selected References
  • Index