Author: Joyce R. Jarrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Total quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The NASA Quality Quest
Author: Joyce R. Jarrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Total quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Total quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Escaping Gravity
Author: Lori Garver
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1635767733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age. Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.” Their quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s. As the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature. She was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts. The result: more efficiency and greater progress. Including insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed to become the envy of the world and is ushering in a new space age, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful change. Praise for Escaping Gravity “Former NASA official Lori Garver offers a front-row seat to the decades-long struggles within and among space bureaucrats and space billionaires. Bring popcorn, as you bear witness to an untold slice of space history.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier “We are living at the most exciting time in space exploration since the Apollo era, in part because the world’s largest space agency, NASA, got around to trying something new, the funding of commercial crews. Lori Garver tells it like it is . . . or was for a woman effecting change at NASA despite men of the military industrial complex—and their cost-plus contracts. It wasn’t rocket science, it was much harder than that. Don’t take my word(s) for it; read this book.” —Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society “A scathing memoir that shows the ugly side of NASA while offering hope for a better future for the space agency.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1635767733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age. Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.” Their quest to transform NASA put Garver in the crosshairs of Congress, the aerospace industry, and hero-astronauts trying to protect their own profits and mythology within a system that had held power since the 1950s. As the head of the NASA transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and second-in-command of the agency, Garver drove policies and funding that enabled commercial competition just as the capabilities and resources of the private sector began to mature. She was determined to deliver more valuable programs, which required breaking the self-interested space-industrial cycle that, like the military, preferred to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on programs aimed to sustain jobs and contracts in key congressional districts. The result: more efficiency and greater progress. Including insider NASA conversations and insights on how the US space industry has been transformed to become the envy of the world and is ushering in a new space age, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful change. Praise for Escaping Gravity “Former NASA official Lori Garver offers a front-row seat to the decades-long struggles within and among space bureaucrats and space billionaires. Bring popcorn, as you bear witness to an untold slice of space history.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist and author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier “We are living at the most exciting time in space exploration since the Apollo era, in part because the world’s largest space agency, NASA, got around to trying something new, the funding of commercial crews. Lori Garver tells it like it is . . . or was for a woman effecting change at NASA despite men of the military industrial complex—and their cost-plus contracts. It wasn’t rocket science, it was much harder than that. Don’t take my word(s) for it; read this book.” —Bill Nye, CEO, The Planetary Society “A scathing memoir that shows the ugly side of NASA while offering hope for a better future for the space agency.” —Kirkus Reviews
X-15 Research Results
Author: Wendell H. Stillwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : X-15 (Rocket aircraft).
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : X-15 (Rocket aircraft).
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Quieting the Boom
Author: Lawrence R. Benson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830042
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830042
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Quest for Performance
Author: Laurence K. Loftin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
Human Health and Performance Risks of Space Exploration Missions
Author: Jancy C. McPhee
Publisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Apollo 8
Author: Robert Godwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896522500
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On December 21st 1968, NASA sent three men to orbit the moon in the Apollo 8 spacecraft. This book and CD-ROM pack contains important documents from the historic odyssey, including the press kit, pre-mission reports and objectives, the supplemental technical report and the post-flight summary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896522500
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On December 21st 1968, NASA sent three men to orbit the moon in the Apollo 8 spacecraft. This book and CD-ROM pack contains important documents from the historic odyssey, including the press kit, pre-mission reports and objectives, the supplemental technical report and the post-flight summary.
NASA Reliability Preferred Practices for Design and Test
Author: NASA. Office of Safety and Mission Quality
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dark Mission
Author: Richard C. Hoagland
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1936239000
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition. Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1936239000
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition. Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.
Biomedical Results from Skylab
Author: Richard S. Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description