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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022669108X
• ISBN13: 9780226691084
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"