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Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission

Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission

Howard E. McCurdy
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On a spring day in 1996, at their research center in the Maryland countryside, representatives from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory presented Administrator Daniel S. Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with a check for $3.6 million. Two and a half years earlier, APL officials had agreed to develop a spacecraft capable of conducting an asteroid rendezvous and to do so for slightly more than $122 million. This was a remarkably low sum for a spacecraft due to conduct a planetary-class mission. By contrast, the Mars Observer spacecraft launched in 1992 for an orbital rendezvous with the red planet had cost $479 million to develop, while the upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn required a spacecraft whose total cost was approaching $1.4 billion. In an Agency accustomed to cost overruns on major missions, the promise to build a planetary-class spacecraft for about $100 million seemed excessively optimistic. This is the story of their accomplishment and successful mission.
86 pages. Dozens of photographs, drawings, illustrations and chart.
This is a Print Replica that maintains the formatting and layout of the original edition and offers many of the advantages of standard Kindle books.
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
aIc Books
Release
September 03, 2015

Low-Cost Innovation in Spaceflight: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission

Howard E. McCurdy
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
On a spring day in 1996, at their research center in the Maryland countryside, representatives from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory presented Administrator Daniel S. Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with a check for $3.6 million. Two and a half years earlier, APL officials had agreed to develop a spacecraft capable of conducting an asteroid rendezvous and to do so for slightly more than $122 million. This was a remarkably low sum for a spacecraft due to conduct a planetary-class mission. By contrast, the Mars Observer spacecraft launched in 1992 for an orbital rendezvous with the red planet had cost $479 million to develop, while the upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn required a spacecraft whose total cost was approaching $1.4 billion. In an Agency accustomed to cost overruns on major missions, the promise to build a planetary-class spacecraft for about $100 million seemed excessively optimistic. This is the story of their accomplishment and successful mission.
86 pages. Dozens of photographs, drawings, illustrations and chart.
This is a Print Replica that maintains the formatting and layout of the original edition and offers many of the advantages of standard Kindle books.
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
aIc Books
Release
September 03, 2015

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