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Shaping science : organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA's teams / Janet Vertesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vertesi, Janet, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spacelabs, Inc.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- United States.
- Research teams--Case studies.
- Research teams.
- Organizational behavior--Case studies.
- Organizational behavior.
- Organizational sociology--Case studies.
- Organizational sociology.
- Space robotics--Research--Social aspects--United States.
- Space robotics.
- Research--Management--Social aspects.
- Research.
- Knowledge management--Social aspects.
- Knowledge management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.) : 12 halftones
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions featured robotic explorers on the frontiers of the solar system bravely investigating new worlds, their commands were issued from millions of miles away by a very human team. By examining the two teams' formal structures, decision-making techniques, and informal work practices in the day-to-day process of mission planning, Vertesi shows just how deeply entangled a team's local organizational context is with the knowledge they produce about other worlds.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- One : Orders
- 1 . The Context
- 2 . The Integrators
- 3 . The Resolutions
- 4 . The Collective
- 5 . The Environment
- Two: Outcomes
- 6 . The Science
- 7 . The Spacecraft
- 8 . The Data
- 9 . The Personalities
- 10 . The Iterative Loop
- Conclusion
- Postscript: Methodological Reflections
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Acronym and Technical Dictionary
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-226-69111-X
- OCLC:
- 1202461995
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