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Aeronautics innovation : NASA's challenges and opportunities / Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies, Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, National Research Council of the National Academies; Stephen A. Merrill, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- United States.
- Aeronautics and state--Technological innovations--United States.
- Aeronautics and state.
- Aeronautics, Commercial--United States.
- Aeronautics, Commercial.
- Technological innovations--United States.
- Technological innovations.
- Technology and state--Technological innovations--United States.
- Technology and state.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 93 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 17 year old Tara McClusky's life is hard. She shares the care of her paralysed father with her domineering, difficult mother, forced to cut down on her hours at school to help support the family with a part-time rest home job. She's very much alone, still grieving the loss of her older sister Van, who died five years before. Her only source of consolation is her obsession with art -- and painting in particular. Most especially she is enamoured with Vincent Van Gogh: she has read all his letters and finds many parallels between the tragic story of his life and her own
- Contents:
- National Aviation Needs and the Federal Role
- Private Sector Perspective
- Technical Requirements
- The Federal Government's Role in Technology
- Resources and National Policy
- Program Focus and Prioritization
- Innovation Facilitators and Accelerators for Aeronautics
- Portfolio Approach and Coherent Alignment with Mission and Customers
- Management for Technology Transition
- Flexible Human Resource Practices and Incentives for Creativity
- Financial Management to Minimize the Disruptive Effects of External Demands
- Organization of NASA Aeronautics R&D
- Public Workshop Agendas
- Biographies of Committee Members and Staff.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786610506712
- 9780309180627
- 0309180627
- 9781280506710
- 1280506717
- 9780309660181
- 0309660181
- OCLC:
- 560458694
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