From the Moon to the Space Station and Beyond; Space Operations
Arthur D. Little. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.75 inches. 16 pages [pages 1/2 and 15/16 duplicated and bound in (and missing pages 3/4 and 13/14). Illustrations. Scarce business advertisement/ephemera. Even scarce since there is a production error (duplicated and missing pages that were released despite renown quality controls at the company). Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company played key roles in the development of business strategy, operations research, the word processor, the first synthetic penicillin, LexisNexis, SABRE and NASDAQ. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm operating as a partnership. From the lunar surface to Space Station Freedom and beyond, Arthur D. Little has helped make the U.S. space program a success. During the Apollo era, the firm designed and fabricated lunar science experiments. These experiments demonstrated that the core of the moon is cold, and today are still used to measure the distance from the Earth to the moon with an accuracy of within one inch. The firm's participation in the Space Shuttle program has been diverse and pervasive. It has ranged from designing flight-qualified thermal systems and a pioneering ad successful mid-deck experiment to analyzing various systems and designs. At the time of this publication, the firm continued to maintain its U.S. space program commitment through the Space Station program. There were at the forefront of space technology, from the early planning stages, through advanced development programs, to flight hardware development and advanced planning for lunar and Martian missions, including EVA systems. Condition: Good.
Keywords: NASA, Space Station, Extravehicular, EVA, Space Refrigerator, Materials Science, Glovebox, Remote Sensing, High Frontier Project, Thermal Analysis, Space Transportation, Contamination Detector, Space Power, Radiative Coolers, Space Telescope, Apollo
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