Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success /

-- -- -- -- -- -- "From building rocket engines to exploring Mars and beyond, Rod Pyle has written a very readable and eminently practical volume that documents the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned from NASA's storied history. To read it is to be inspired to recreate in today...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pyle, Rod (Author)
Corporate Author: 3M Company
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Technological innovations > Case studies.
Creative thinking > Case studies.
Innovations > Études de cas.
Creative thinking.
Technological innovations.
Case studies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword by Lori Garver
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1: Curiosity: Seven Minutes of Terror
  • CHAPTER 2: Red Moon
  • CHAPTER 3: Riding the Fire: The X-15
  • CHAPTER 4: First to Mars: Mariner 4
  • CHAPTER 5: Swimming in Space
  • CHAPTER 6: The Day NASA Grew Up: Apollo 1
  • CHAPTER 7: The Bug
  • CHAPTER 8: Taming the Dragon: The F-1 Rocket Engine
  • CHAPTER 9: The Big Squeeze: The Saturn V's Incredible Second Stage
  • CHAPTER 10: A Daring Gambit: Apollo 8
  • CHAPTER 11: Apollo 11: Center of Gravity
  • CHAPTER 12: Tomorrowland: Saving Skylab
  • CHAPTER 13: Project Viking: Looking for Life on Mars
  • CHAPTER 14: Into the Great Darkness: Voyager's Incredible Journey
  • CHAPTER 15: Compromise 101: The Space Shuttle-Doing More for Less
  • CHAPTER 16: Buck Rogers: The International Space Station
  • CHAPTER 17: NewSpace: Capitalism Shining Bright
  • CHAPTER 18: Coming Home: Bringing NASA's Lessons to Your Business
  • Index

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