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Space and the American Imagination by Howard E. McCurdy 9780801898686
Booksplease Price: £34.10People dreamed of cosmic exploration-winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts-long before it actually happened. Space and the American Imagination traces the... -
The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice by Howard E. McCurdy 9780801887499
Booksplease Price: £27.41Outstanding Academic Title, 1991, Choice Magazine Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of... -
Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program by Howard E. McCurdy
Booksplease Price: £28.90Inside 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... -
Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program by Howard E. McCurdy
Booksplease Price: £29.07In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy... -
Financing the New Space Industry: Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support by Howard E. McCurdy 9783030322915
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies-SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company-to launch their entry into the field of... -
Low Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The History of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 36, 2005 by Howard E. McCurdy 9781780393315
Booksplease Price: £19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780393315Author Howard E. McCurdyFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Books Express... -
Low Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The History of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 36, 2005 by Howard E. McCurdy 9781780393117
Booksplease Price: £13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780393117Author Howard E. McCurdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Books Express... -
NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation by Roger D. Launius 9783319601120
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways... -
Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership by Roger D. Launius 9780252066320
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Setting the tone for the collection, NASA chief historian Roger D. Launius and Howard McCurdy maintain that the nation's presidency had become imperial by the mid-1970s and that supporters of the... -
Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel by Roger D. Launius
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt... -
Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration by David H. Rosenbloom 9781589010932
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly new - it echoes the early twentieth-century "gospel of efficiency"... -
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon 9780230110106
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £41.66While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive... -
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon 9781137346490
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £41.36While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive...