In "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S.
Space Program," Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to
save money while improving mission frequency and performance.
McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the
1990s--including an orbit of the moon, deployment of three space
telescopes, four Earth-orbiting satellites, two rendezvous with
comets and asteroids, and a test of an ion propulsion engine--which
cost less than the sum traditionally spent on a single,
conventionally planned planetary mission. He shows how these
missions employed smaller spacecraft and cheaper technology to
undertake less complex and more specific tasks in outer space.
While the technological innovation and space exploration approach
that McCurdy describes is still controversial, the historical
perspective on its disappointments and triumphs points to ways of
developing "faster, better, and cheaper" as a management
manifesto.
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