Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams

by Janet Vertesi

Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s, Janet Vertesi uncovers how the social organization of a scientific team affects their scientific practices and results.

In Shaping Science, Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226829553
• ISBN13: 9780226829555
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"