Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis Used in Support of the Space Shuttle Program written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-Benefit Analysis Used in Support of the Space Shuttle Program

Download or read book Cost benefit Analysis Used in Support of the Space Shuttle Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1974 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementation of Sections 201 to 205 231 to 235 and 451 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Report of the General Accounting Office written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1974 NASA Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1974 NASA Authorization Hearings Before written by United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Technology Pork Barrel written by Linda R. Cohen and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American public policy has had a long history of technological optimism. The success of the United States in research and development contributes to this optimism and leads many to assume that there is a technological fix for significant national problems. Since World War II the federal government has been the major supporter of commercial research and development efforts in a wide variety of industries. But how successful are these projects? And equally important, how do economic and policy factors influence performance and are these influences predictable and controllable? Linda Cohen, Roger Noll, and three other economists address these questions while focusing on the importance of R&D to the national economy. They examine the codependency between technological progress and economic growth and explain such matters as why the private sector often fails to fund commercially applicable research adequately and why the government should focus support on some industries and not others. They also analyze political incentives facing officials who enact and implement programs and the subsequent forces affecting decisions to continue, terminate, or redirect them. The central part of this book presents detailed case histories of six programs: the supersonic transport, communications satellites, the space shuttle, the breeder reactor, photovoltaics, and synthetic fuels. The authors conclude with recommendations for program restructuring to minimize the conflict between economic objectives and political constraints.

Download or read book Annual Report Comptroller General of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book GAO Report on Analysis of Cost of Space Shuttle Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Space Shuttle Decision written by T. A. Heppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the NASA was the throes of planning for the Apollo voyages to the Moon, many people had seen the need for a vehicle that could access space routinely. The idea of a reusable space shuttle dates at least to the theoretical rocketplane studies of the 1930s, but by the 1950s it had become an integral part of a master plan for space exploration. The goal of efficient access to space in a heavy-lift booster prompted NASA's commitment to the space shuttle as the vehicle to continue human space flight. By the mid-1960s, NASA engineers concluded that the necessary technology was within reach to enable the creation of a reusable winged space vehicle that could haul scientific and applications satellites of all types into orbit for all users. President Richard M. Nixon approved the effort to build the shuttle in 1972 and the first orbital flight took place in 1981. Although the development program was risky, a talented group of scientists and engineers worked to create this unique space vehicle and their efforts were largely successful. Since 1981, the various orbiters -Atlantis, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour, and Challenger (lost in 1986 during the only Space Shuttle accident)- have made early 100 flights into space. Through 1998, the space shuttle has carried more than 800 major scientific and technological payloads into orbit and its astronaut crews have conducted more than 50 extravehicular activities, including repairing satellites and the initial building of the International Space Station. The shuttle remains the only vehicle in the world with the dual ability to deliver and return large payloads to and from orbit, and is also the world's most reliable launch system. The design, now almost three decades old, is still state-of-the-art in many areas, including computerized flight control, airframe design, electrical power systems, thermal protection system, and main engines. This significant new study of the decision to build the space shuttle explains the shuttle's origin and early development. In addition to internal NASA discussions, this work details the debates in the late 1960s and early 1970s among policymakers in Congress, the Air Force, and the Office of Management and Budget over the roles and technical designs of the shuttle. Examining the interplay of these organizations with sometimes conflicting goals, the author not only explains how the world's premier space launch vehicle came into being, but also how politics can interact with science, technology, national security, and economics in national government.

Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."