Oct 11 1963
From The Space Library
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Earl D. Hilburn, speaking before the Midwest Regional Conference of the Society of American Military Engineers in Omaha, Neb., described NASA s steady increase in facilities and techniques for ground simulation of the space environment in the testing of spacecraft : "To date, . . . it has been estimated that the monetary cost of the spacecraft environmental test programs has been less than 10 percent of the irrecoverable cost of the spacecraft launch. It is estimated that the cost of placing a Thor-Delta launched spacecraft into orbit is $10 million. Included in the 10 percent figure I have just cited is the prorated cost of spacecraft test facilities distributed over about 20 launches and 10 years of time." (Text)
Douglas Aircraft Co. graduated first class from on-the-job training, program for potential executives. The six trainees, with no previous managerial experience, were assigned full time to departments completely different from their prior jobs with the company. Acting as staff assistants, they sat m on all policy conferences and later reviewed with the manager in private his reasons for the decisions made during the conference. W.E. Maschal, director of management systems for the Aircraft Division, said the program differed from other manager rotation plans "in its emphasis upon teaching potential managers the decision making process from the executive point of view." (Space Bus. Daily, 10/11/63, 68)
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