Samuel Phillips and the Taming of Apollo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4025751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen B Johnson (0000-0002-6079-8419, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 685-709 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2001.0168 |
| OpenAlex | W1981894551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In July 1969, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) landed the first men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth. This amazing technological feat impressed even normally skeptical members of Congress, who in the same year held hearings as a forum in which NASA could trumpet the virtues of its management methods. To many observers, the real significance of Project Apollo lay in its successful direction of "massed scores of thousands of minds in a close-knit, mutually enhancive combination of government, university, and private industry." 1 Congress and many others believed that the experience of coordinating hundreds of thousands of workers and thousands of organizations to achieve a seemingly impossible goal might provide clues to potential solutions for intractable social problems
Administration (probate law) · Aeronautics · Apollo · Economics · Epistemology · Government (linguistics) · Management · Moon landing · Political science · Skepticism · Space (punctuation) · Space program · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |