From the Paper
"The Nasa Decision-Making Environment
This research examines the decision-making environment within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In part, this examination is based on Case No. 25, The NASA Space Shuttle Disaster (Marx, Stubbart, Traub, & Cavanaugh, 1987, pp. 829-844).


Background
NASA is an organization that owes its beginning to a political crisis in the United States. Early Soviet space successes further fueled Cold War fears among the American population; fears that were maintained at high levels by American politicians at the best of times.


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This paper offers an organizational assessment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The writer of this paper examines NASA's history and mission while also evaluating its goals and objectives. The paper also analyzes NASA's strengths and weaknesses while detailing the organization's strengths and weaknesses.

Tags:NASA

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This paper details a needs assessment for quality improvement at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). It includes program goal setting, prioritizing program goals, funding and operational decision-making. The purpose of the assessment is to improve quality performance at NASA.

Tags:NASA, Aeronautics, Space

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This paper discusses the Apollo 7 and Apollo 8 space missions and their overall effect on the United States' space race. It looks at the history behind the space race and climate in the United States at the time that the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) was first developing these missions. The paper concludes that these missions helped to revive American interest and motivate the public's support for NASA, as well as helped America to take a definite lead in the space race against the Soviets.

From the Paper
"Remembering the Apollo 8 mission, William Anders stated, "The biggest surprise of the mission was to see the first Earthrise over the moon and to realize that the Earth was even more interesting than the moon. I consider the moon voyages a technical feat, a political feat." Apollo 8 was indeed both of these. The Apollo 7 and 8 missions were vital ingredients in the overall victory for America in the space race. They helped to revive American interest and motivate the public's support for NASA. They also helped America to take a definite lead in the space race against the Soviets and use this momentum to continue to the moon. Lastly, they helped to prove that the moon was a feasible goal, and that Kennedy's idea of putting a man on the moon before the decade was out was more than possible."

Tags:NASA, moon, voyage, astronaut, lunar, landing

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This paper relates the beginning of the U.S. space program from Germany's World War II development of intermediate range ballistic missiles to USSR's launching the first satellite Sputnik 1 during the Cold War period to finally the launching of the first U.S.satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958. The paper describes the manned flights, the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the landing on the moon. The paper reports that, in recent years, NASA is focusing less on lunar exploration and more on studying Mars and beyond. The author concludes that the U.S. space program is of great benefit to the country.

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"Meanwhile, in the U.S. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to plan, direct, and conduct all U.S. aeronautical and space activities, except those that are primarily military ("NASA"). This meant that the Army's, Air Force's, and Navy's space programs were all consolidated into one. The U.S. countered the Vostok missions with their own Mercury program, sending Alan Shepard into space on May 5, 1961, the first American to do so. Soon after, John Glenn became the first American into orbit."

Tags:glenn apollo, cold war, mars, project constellation

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On 28 January 1986, the world was shocked by the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, and the death of its crew. This paper examines the processes used in deciding to launch the ill-fated mission. It focuses on the flawed culture within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its associated mismanagement. It analyses how this culture influenced NASA's beliefs, its decision-making process and its performance.
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Background
Engineering
Management Issues
Belief Systems
Conclusion
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From the Paper
"President Nixon endorsed the Shuttle during the 1972 election year because it would increase employment. In a crime against the English language, he announced that the vehicle would "revolutionise transportation into near space, by routinising it." He also recognised that it was politically unacceptable not to maintain a manned presence in space. However, the Office of Management and Budget continued to monitor the programme's costs. NASA was forced to make savings in the short term, at the expense of higher operational costs and greater risks. Solid-rocket boosters were chosen because they were less expensive to develop and could be more quickly refurbished than boosters using liquid propellants."

Tags:communication, culture, launch, neurolinguistic, nlp, orbiter, programming, rockwell, rogers, thiokol

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This first part of this paper examines the current structure of NASA, and the problems that are spawned by its fragmented structure. The paper then looks at the goals, obstacles and potential benefits of the One NASA program, paying special attention to the Integrated Financial Management Project (IFMP). It examines whether the IFMP -- an agency-wide effort to overhaul NASA's financial and administrative systems and processes can have a positive effect in building a more integrated organizational culture within the space agency.

From the Paper
"NASA is not a single monolith. Instead, it is composed of several field centers scattered across the country. Each center has its own staff, origin and research focus (Bromberg 1999). Ideally, these field centers work together with their headquarters, situated in Washington, DC. After all, as seen in the following description of their responsibilities and duties, many of the centers have overlapping mandates, duties and projects. However, more often than not, Headquarters and the individual centers are in conflict, resulting in duplication of effort and a waste of resources."

Tags:space, national, aeronautics, administration

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In this article, the writer looks at the threat the new national security regime poses to Canadians. In particular, the writer reviews the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Agency of Canada (PSEPC) and looks also at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) with an "eye" towards assessing the ways in which these organizations can be said to be infringing upon the privacy of Canadians and whether this infringement is justifiable. In addition, the writer looks at the Canadian Constitution and how the new security regime has the potential to derogate section 7 and 8 privacy guarantees unless Canadian judges are vigilant in ensuring that the reasons for any surveillance are compelling and satisfy the "reasonable limitations" standard established in section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the end, the writer agrees with Michael Powers that the new security regime bears with it certain undeniable risks to privacy protections.

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"National security has rarely been more controversial or important than it has been over the last few years in the wake of 9/11 and the grim realization that terrorism can now strike North America just as it can strike anywhere else. With that in mind, the following paper ..."

Tags:national, security, Canada

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This paper explores the debate within media studies around the effects of media products and technologies on time and space. It compares the theoretical positions of media theorists regarding how media leads to the creation of non-places; time-space compression and the alternative time-space distanciation. Finally, this paper presents an argument against the media's ability to change time and space; arguing instead that the media's main power is to alter human perceptions of time and space.

From the Paper
"There is a hint of ludicrousness in the notion that media can contribute to changes in the workings and make-up of time and space. Temporal mechanics, whatever they may be, arguably remain fundamentally unphased by the machinations media. Space, admittedly an abstract concept, is arguably immune from the effects of the media, at least in its physical (or non-physical in the case of outer-space) form - save for the erection of an advertising billboard in a once empty field to occupy a vacant space, media cannot manipulate the actual size of a room or shrink physical distance. Despite the fact that one can communicate with a friend in New York from London near instantaneously via the web, the distance between the two cities remains 3, 440 miles. The idea is one however which carries a great deal of weight. It seemingly flows from postmodernist thought and conceptions around what Baudrillard calls 'the loss of the real'. In the post-modern world, so the argument goes, everything is reduced to signs, symbols and language. The argument, logically extended, is therefore that there is no 'real' space or time and that both, through the use of signs, symbols and language - the stock and trade of the media - are changeable. It will be submitted here that such claims are arguably misguided."

Tags:appadurai, giddens, globalization, gunn, lefebvre, localization

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This essay discusses social geography - that is, the way in which geography intersects with social, economic, and demographic issues. Namely, the essay addresses the issue of "race and space". The writer looks at how race is distributed across a given urban landscape, and the implications. In light of this, two Canadian cities - Toronto and Vancouver - are examined in this article.

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"Social geography, as the name implies, refers to the intersecting of geography with social issues such as economic, ethnic, racial and religious distribution of people within a given space. Though there are issues related to social geography in literally every geographic area, they are, on a small scale, particularly easy to identify and interpret in certain North American centers; these cities tend to have very high levels of immigration, much of which involves the entry of people who are racial or ethnic minorities."

Tags:social, geography, race