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A strategy of cost control for Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973

Author
Biggs, John R.
Published
Nov 1, 1994.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Downhower, Walter J.
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Summary
The spacecraft launched by NASA on November 3, 1973 to explore Venus and Mercury proved a notable success as a development project both in space and on the ground. This article on the development points our management approaches and techniques that kept schedules and controlled costs, the intent being to stimulate thought about how to do the same with future spacecraft and payloads. The Mariner Venus/Mercury '73 (MVM '73) project kept within its originally established goals for schedule, performance, and cost. Underlying this development success was the availability of the Mariner technology. But meeting the goals demanded management determination, planning, and discipline to make optimum use of state-of-the-art technology--on the part of people at NASA, JPL, and The Boeing Co. (the contractor).
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19950014334.
Accession ID: 95N20751.
Readings in Program Control; p 137-153.
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