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	Howard McCurdy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howard Douglas McCurdy is a retired Canadian politician and university professor.
		McCurdy has also served for a time as Michigan State University's president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		McCurdy campaigned for the Ontario New Democratic Party nomination in Windsor—Sandwich in the buildup to the 1995 provincial election, but was unexpectedly defeated by Arlene Rousseau.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_McCurdy (289 words)

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		McCurdy: there were 3 great battles, I think during the 1960s when we almost lost John F. Kennedy's goal of going to the moon by the end of the decade.
		McCurdy: My research suggests that the public that Kennedy was appealing to with the Apollo decision were the publics in uncommitted nations in the 3rd World.
		McCurdy: First thing he does is he sends out his brother and a lot of other people to approach leaders in the Soviet Union and then he himself -- secretly, this was not known at the time -- takes Kruschev aside and says, "Hey, let's go to the moon together.
	www.wamu.org /d/programs/special/moon/mccurdy-launius_opp.txt (5263 words)

	Did NASA Become the Post Office Gone to Space?
		McCurdy attributes great importance to the last aspect: he values the culture of verification for its capacity to ward off tendencies of bureaucratisation, and to shield NASA from political interference.
		McCurdy’s account is susceptible to the critique that he mainly explains success by internal factors, not by external ones.
		McCurdy claims that the NASA experience, as he calls it, is generalisable to high-performance agencies in the public sector.
	www.easst.net /review/march1999/marres (2478 words)

	Howard McCurdy, Keynote Speaker
		Howard D. McCurdy was the second AfroCanadian elected to the Parliament of Canada.
		His other activities during that period included: serving as President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers; Chairman of the Board of St Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology; President of the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology; and Chairman and founder of the Canadian College of Microbiologists.
		As an MP, McCurdy was considered to be among the best for his effective advocacy for youth, post secondary education, science and technology, human and equality rights at home and abroad and a renewal of the social democratic vision.
	www.cbtu.ca /events/mccurdy.html (503 words)

	SPACE.com -- NASA Should Pick New Chief Quickly, Historian Says
		Professor Howard McCurdy, the author of four books on the history and evolution of NASA, said now is not a good time for instability at the space agency, cautioning that anything short of a permanent replacement for Dan Goldin, who announced his resignation today, would be a mistake.
		McCurdy cited the fact that NASA was overseen by an interim leader during the Challenger disaster.
		In a telephone interview, McCurdy said looming budget cuts to the agency, along with current tensions in America related to the war on terrorism, make the choice of a successor all the more critical to ensure a smooth transition and effective oversight.
	www.space.com /news/goldin_mccurdy_011017.html (1028 words)

	The power and curse of imagination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Such images, McCurdy says, were propagated as part of a well-planned public relations campaign by space advocates, a loose coalition of enthusiasts that included popular science writers, engineers, and science fiction writers.
		McCurdy pinpoints the exact moment when the notion of space travel was transformed from fantasy to public policy.
		As McCurdy notes, Johnson did not mention that most scientists were highly skeptical of the "control of space" argument, nor that it had been promoted by people more interested in adventure than scientific discovery.
	veracity.univpubs.american.edu /weeklypast/101398/story_5.html (998 words)

	American Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Howard McCurdy, professor of public administration in the School of Public Affairs, has some ideas about the future of NASA.
		McCurdy describes two extremes for the future of NASA’s manned shuttle program, which before the Columbia disaster consisted of four shuttles making three to eight flights annually with scientific experiments and components for the unfinished International Space Station.
		McCurdy was as shocked as the general public when the Columbia broke apart.
	veracity.univpubs.american.edu /weeklypast/030403/030403_nasa.html (603 words)

	Online NewsHour: Living Aloft -- November 2, 2000
		HOWARD McCURDY: Well, I can tell you what the people who conceived of this objective almost 20 years ago thought they were doing - people like Jim Begs, who was a NASA administrator - Philip Culvertson and John Hodge, who headed the space station task force that drew up the initial conceptual plan.
		HOWARD McCURDY: It was announced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 -- he challenged NASA to complete it within a decade.
		HOWARD McCURDY: No, actually it was not as large; it's 250 feet wide, and this one is much larger, but it was round and it rotated, and subsequent to that, scientists and engineers have learned the real advantage of a space station is micro gravity.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec00/space_11-2.html (2525 words)

	Descendants of James McCURDY and Eliza BERNHEISEL
		McCurdy, as has been said, resides in the homestead; she is a member of the Presbyterian church, and attends at Lewistown.
		McCurdy was born near Lewistown, Pa., June 3, 1836, and died Feb. 18, 1898.
		Howard Wells McCurdy attended the public and high schools of Salem, and his first business connection was with the Salem Republican, a weekly newspaper, in April, 1876.
	www.michaelscottcaldwell.com /genealogy/mccurdy/james.html (4238 words)

	Faster, Better Cheaper: A Space Historian Takes Stock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MCCURDY: There are two cultures in NASA and the aerospace industry.
		Howard McCurdy, professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. We even know from within NASA, from the experience there, with spacecraft like Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), and Mars Pathfinder, and New Millennium 1, and Deep Space 1 that you can do these things.
		MCCURDY: It has to be fun, and you can’t grow discouraged because you don’t have enough money to solve the problems that you’re trying to solve.
	www.space.com /peopleinterviews/mccurdy_profile_000419.html (1403 words)

	Amazon.fr : Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program: Livres en anglais: Howard E. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s—including an orbit of the moon, deployment of three space telescopes, four Earth-orbiting satellites, two rendezvous with comets and asteroids, and a test of an ion propulsion engine—which cost less than the sum traditionally spent on a single, conventionally planned planetary mission.
		While the technological innovation and space exploration approach that McCurdy describes is still controversial, the historical perspective on its disappointments and triumphs points to ways of developing "faster, better, and cheaper" as a management manifesto.
		"Howard McCurdy is an exceptionally talented scholar who has made many seminal contributions to aerospace history.
	www.amazon.fr /Faster-Better-Cheaper-Low-Cost-Innovation/dp/0801877490 (535 words)

	Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy/Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
		Setting the tone for the collection, NASA chief historian Roger D. Launius and Howard McCurdy maintain that the nation's presidency had become imperial by the mid-1970s and that supporters of the space program had grown to find relief in such a presidency, which they believed could help them obtain greater political support and funding.
		ROGER D. chief historian, is the coeditor of Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History and author of NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program.
		HOWARD E. McCURDY, a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, is the author of Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program, which won the Henry Adams Prize in 1994.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f97/launius.html (331 words)

	American Society for Public Administration - National Capital Area Chapter -- About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Howard McCurdy is professor of public affairs and chair of the public administration department at American University in Washington, D.C. Public management, organization theory, public policy, and financial management are the focus of Professor McCurdy’s teaching and research.
		He is often consulted by the media on public policy issues and has appeared on national news outlets such as the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, and NBC Nightly News.
		Professor McCurdy received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Washington and his doctorate from Cornell University.
	www.aspaonline.org /ncac/about/mccurdy.htm (185 words)

	Online NewsHour: Space Station -- November 20, 1998
		HOWARD McCURDY: NASA's wanted to build a space station since before they were NASA.
		HOWARD MC CURDY: NASA would propose a space station as, in effect, the builders of a house might propose a construction of a house and the owners would
		TOM BEARDEN: McCurdy believes that the joining of these first elements will be remembered as a milestone in human history, one perhaps even more important than the first Moon landing.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec98/space_11-20.html (2067 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| Inside NASA
		Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space program and NASA's organizational culture.
		To launch the expeditions to the moon, McCurdy explains, this technical culture was linked to an organizational structure borrowed from the Air Force ballistic-missile program.
		Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs at the American University.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/1795.html (226 words)

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		Though according to American University's Howard McCurdy, it was no less odd; especially looking at the Cold War with 30 years-perspective.
		McCurdy: The first, firm estimate that you get on the Apollo program is 19.5 billion dollars...
		(McCurdy: He couldn't fund the war in Vietnam; he couldn't fund a $5 billion-plus space program and he certainly couldn't fund all of his urban initiatives at the same time.
	www.wamu.org /d/programs/special/moon/opp_show.txt (7441 words)

	The Space Review: Review: FBC examined
		McCurdy, a professor of public policy at American University, does not take a chronological approach to his study of FBC, but instead looks at several aspects of it, including organizational issues, technology, reliability, and cost control.
		McCurdy notes that one of the key reasons Mars Pathfinder was successful was that it was able to fly under the radar while being developed at JPL: because the center was preoccupied with the far-larger Cassini mission, Mars Pathfinder has little oversight.
		McCurdy also touches on why several missions failed in 1999, including the two major Mars missions as well as Deep Space 2 and the infrared telescope WIRE.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/35/1 (690 words)

	The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston
		Professor Howard McCurdy was the guest for this Space Show program.
		As a result of a listener question regarding a future Hilary Clinton as president, Dr. McCurdy pointed to the history of presidents and our space program to suggest that it would be unlikely for anyone in the high office to actually kill the program.
		Howard McCurdy is professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.C, currently on leave for one year at the University of Washington in Seattle.
	216.0.74.13 /detail.asp?q=511 (509 words)

	Howard McCurdy Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s -- including an orbit of the moon, deployment of three space telescopes, four Earth-orbiting...
		In Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership, ten contributors present compelling arguments and analyses that shed new light on the power and leadership of the nation's presidency and on the space program.
		Setting the tone for the collection, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy maintain that the nation's presidency had become imperial by the...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Howard_McCurdy (645 words)

	McCurdy Howard E The space station decision : incremental politics and technological choice Howard E. McCurdy. AIP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		McCurdy Howard E The space station decision : incremental politics and technological choice Howard E. McCurdy.
		The space station decision : incremental politics and technological choice / Howard E. McCurdy.
		by McCurdy, Howard E. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1990.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/books/13461.html (66 words)

	Dr. Howard E. McCurdy ‹› Faculty and Staff Directory ‹› School of Public Affairs ...
		Howard McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the public administration and policy department at American University in Washington, D.C. Public management, organization theory, public policy, and financial management are the focus of Professor McCurdy’s teaching and research.
		McCurdy, Howard E. Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
		McCurdy, Howard E. Space and the American Imagination Washington,DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
	spa.american.edu /listings.php?ID=18 (299 words)

	Howard McCurdy - New Democratic Party of Canada Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		Howard McCurdy - New Democratic Party of Canada Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		From 1979 to 1984, Howard McCurdy served the city of Windsor as an Alderman and later joined the New Democratic Party, eventually becoming the party's first African-Canadian Member of Parliament.
		He served as the MP for the riding of Windsor-St. Clair from the 1984 election until his defeat in the 1993 federal election.
	ndp.wikia.com /wiki/Howard_McCurdy (215 words)

	Amazon.com: Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program (New Series in NASA History): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was not really a program, of course, but more of a mantra, and Howard E. McCurdy's important study of the trend in the 1990s helps to explain what it was and what it was not.
		McCurdy notes that one of the fundamental tenets of the program management concept was that three critical factors--cost, schedule, and reliability--were interrelated and had to be managed as a group.
		McCurdy undertook this study for the NASA History Division while I was Chief Historian, and the result helped to reshape the project management approach at the agency.
	www.amazon.com /Faster-Better-Cheaper-Low-Cost-Innovation/dp/0801867207 (1649 words)

	Wired News: Mars Mission a Trojan Horse?
		One question that's sure to arise -- assuming Bush's vision for the moon and Mars sticks -- is whether to kill the station and shuttle now, instead of in six to 12 years as the plan currently envisions, said Howard McCurdy, a space historian at American University in Washington.
		McCurdy noted that the current President Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, similarly proposed going to the moon and Mars in 1989.
		The current President Bush only signed on to a new moon-Mars plan after assurances from NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe that the agency had returned to being the can-do outfit that sent men to the moon in the 1960s, McCurdy said.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,61937,00.html (744 words)

	Goddard News - Top Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Howard McCurdy talks to Goddard personnel in the main area of the library.
		In an afternoon session, Dr. Howard McCurdy, professor of Public Affairs and Chair of the Public Administration department at American University in Washington, D.C. spoke on the Influence of Low-Cost Initiatives on the NASA Space Flight Program.
		Throughout the day there were refreshments served and the opportunity for members of the Goddard community to mingle.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /goddardnews/20031017/library.html (386 words)

	AAAS - AAAS News Release
		Howard McCurdy at the S and T Leadership Seminar.
		The U.S. space exploration program has long been troubled by a lack of vision and a lack of commitment, said Howard McCurdy, a professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.C., who has written extensively on the issue.
		The current administration has announced the goal of returning crews to the moon — not as an end in itself, McCurdy said, but as a way of preparing for human exploration of Mars.
	www.aaas.org /news/releases/2005/1209leadership.shtml (2188 words)

	Bill calls for NASA to complete space station - space - 30 September 2005 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He also told USA Today that the decision in the 1970s to replace the Apollo programme with the reusable space shuttle "was not the right path", adding "we are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we can."
		Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert at American University in Washington DC, interprets Griffin's remarks as a bid to boost support for NASA's new plan to return to the Moon.
		But McCurdy adds: "It's also a risky statement because it invites more attention to the human spaceflight program at a time when the government needs the money for other purposes."
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn8077 (660 words)

	Review of Imagining Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otherwise, the book is liable to wind up on their shelf instead of in junior's eager hands.
		For Launius and McCurdy have, with the help of a host of others involved in space studies, produced a thoroughly researched and well written text to complement that excellent collection of illustrations.
		Its nine topically organized chapters present an overview of the history of the Space Age, a history that began in grandiose visions and proceeded through a substantial number of worthy achievements, many surprises, some disappointments, and a few grievous failures to bring us to the present.
	www.chris-winter.com /SpaceVis/Launius_Mccurdy/Imagine_Space.html (772 words)

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