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S'està carregant… The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers (edició 2016)de Dutch Ehrenfried (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe birth of NASA : the work of the space task group, america's first true space pioneers de Manfred von Ehrenfried
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. The idea behind this book is great. How did NASA come into being? Why was it founded? What were the first few missions (notably, the Mercury program). However, the execution of this particular book is horrible. It just completely fails. I think this book could have used two or three competent editors. The narrative is not linear, nor does it follow any real organizational style, causing many sections to be repetitive and unnecessarily cross-referenced. It also makes it hard to follow, because one topic will be brought up briefly, several other topics and chapters will go by, and then that topic will be covered again in more detail. The author lists a seemingly unending amount of names, which is totally inappropriate for the main text of the book and should be in an appendix. I could go on and on. Seriously, this book was just TERRIBLE. I would not recommend it, even if you love the space program and NASA (as I do), because you will just wish you could get those few hours of your life back and spend them reading a much better book instead. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they were transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1962, but their organization left a large mark on what would follow. Von Ehrenfried's personal experience with the STG at Langley uniquely positions him to describe the way the group was structured and how it reacted to the new demands of a post-Sputnik era. He artfully analyzes how the growing space program was managed and what techniques enabled it to develop so quickly from an operations perspective. The result is a fascinating window into history, amply backed up by first person documentation and interviews. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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