Major projects at NASA : select assessments / Eloy D'Aramitz, editor. - New York : Nova Publishers, c2013 - viii, 158 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - ( Space science, exploration and policies series )( government procedures and operations series ). - Space science, exploration and policies series. .
Price. 15 L.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
NASA : assessments of selected large-scale projects / United States Government Accountability Office -- James Webb space telescope : actions needed to improve cost estimate and oversight of test and integration / United States Government Accountability Office.
"This book provides a snapshot of how well NASA is planning and executing its major acquisitions - an area that been on the Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) high risk list since 1990. Over the past 4 years, a range of projects such as robotic probes designed to explore the Martian surface and telescopes intended to explore the universe have been reviewed. NASA has launched many of the projects and most of the projects are returning science results as intended. For example, the Dawn spacecraft reached the solar system's second largest asteroid, Vesta, in July 2011 and is beaming back images and data to scientists about how the solar system formed. Another project called GRAIL, launched in September 2011, and its twin spacecraft recently entered orbit around the moon to begin its measurements of lunar gravity."--P. [vii].
9781624178665 1624178669
2013444691
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Expenditures, Public.
The Solar System
TL521.312 / .M325 2013
523.1 / 66
Price. 15 L.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
NASA : assessments of selected large-scale projects / United States Government Accountability Office -- James Webb space telescope : actions needed to improve cost estimate and oversight of test and integration / United States Government Accountability Office.
"This book provides a snapshot of how well NASA is planning and executing its major acquisitions - an area that been on the Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) high risk list since 1990. Over the past 4 years, a range of projects such as robotic probes designed to explore the Martian surface and telescopes intended to explore the universe have been reviewed. NASA has launched many of the projects and most of the projects are returning science results as intended. For example, the Dawn spacecraft reached the solar system's second largest asteroid, Vesta, in July 2011 and is beaming back images and data to scientists about how the solar system formed. Another project called GRAIL, launched in September 2011, and its twin spacecraft recently entered orbit around the moon to begin its measurements of lunar gravity."--P. [vii].
9781624178665 1624178669
2013444691
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Expenditures, Public.
The Solar System
TL521.312 / .M325 2013
523.1 / 66