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Topic: ISS book
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 07-07-2006 12:51 PM
   
For those who haven't checked Apogee Books' website or don't receive their newsletter, here's their latest publication (still trying to figure out how to buy from their web site.... :-( :ISScapades
by Donald A. Beattie (Former senior manager at NASA) Donald A. Beattie, a former senior manager at the National Science Foundation, Energy Research and Development Administration, Department of Energy and NASA, served on the Space Station Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1994. He recounts the evolution of this troubled program from the perspective of a participant and close observer who worked side by side with many of the early NASA Space Station managers. He pulls no punches in describing the political and managerial conflicts that resulted in severely compromising a major international program that may never achieve the research goals envisioned when first announced by President Reagan in 1984. Beattie’s last book, Taking Science to the Moon (2001), is also a NASA insider’s account of the successful struggle in the 1960s to convince NASA management to include critical lunar science experiments on the Apollo missions. 226 pages (232), all black & white 19 drawings
5 photos
11 tables
432 footnotes includes an Index Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction: “. . . the next logical step” (1982 - 1984)
Chapter 1: First Reality Check – Problems and Solutions (April 1984 - December 1985)
Chapter 2: The Baseline Configuration – Everyone on the Same Page? (January 1986 - April 1987)
Chapter 3: Replacing Challenger – More Studies – More Paper (April 1987 - January 1989)
Chapter 4: More Management Changes – Design Continues to Evolve (February 1989 - December 1990)
Chapter 5: Restructuring the Space Station (January 1991 - December 1992)
Chapter 6: New Administration – Back to Square One (January 1993 - March 1994)
Chapter 7: The International Space Station (Alpha) (April 1994 - December 1996)
Chapter 8: Assembly Begins – A New Star in the Evening Sky (January 1997 - January 1999)
Chapter 9: The Story Continues (1999 - 2005)
Chapter 10: Who Was in Charge? – No One!
Selected Bibliography
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Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-07-2006 01:26 PM
And there's alway the 2-volume set of BIS on the ISS ( with portraits of all spacewalkers ! ) http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/170/id/279/l/nl
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Naraht
Member Posts: 232
From: Oxford, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 07-07-2006 01:31 PM
Hopefully this will contain some information about why John Aaron was forced to resign as JSC's ISS manager back in 1993. I've always wanted to hear more of the details of that story. It sounds like it had more to do with politics than with his competence as a manager. I'd certainly like to believe that was the case, anyway. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 07-07-2006 04:27 PM
cspg-Not sure why you're having trouble ordering...I was able to order by clicking on the "more information" link for the book and there's a "Buy It Now" button that worked for me. Then click on "Add to cart" below the info. You do have to create an account if you've never bought from the site before. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 07-08-2006 07:28 AM
GoesTo11,I can order from their web site but I couldn't figure out the amount of postage I had to pay (to Switzerland) and how to pay -credit card with no paypal account needed; I have both but at no time during the "proceed to checkout" you're being asked to provide financial information. I've emailed them a few days ago to clarify things. Still waiting for any answer.... Chris |
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