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Management

Better booster production

January 1, 2019

The retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011 afforded an opportunity for NASA and industry managers to take a fresh look at production practices. Justin Pancoast of Northrop Grumman explains how engineers expunged inefficiencies from production of the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System, the agency’s next human-rated launch vehicle.
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