Book ID: CBB479510656

Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (2020)

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In Shaping Science, Janet Vertesi draws 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. Although these missions featured robotic explorers on the frontiers of the solar system bravely investigating new worlds, their commands were issued from millions of miles away by a very human team. By examining the two teams’ formal structures, decision-making techniques, and informal work practices in the day-to-day process of mission planning, Vertesi shows just how deeply entangled a team’s local organizational context is with the knowledge they produce about other worlds.   Using extensive, embedded experiences on two NASA spacecraft teams, this is the first book to apply organizational studies of work to the laboratory environment in order to analyze the production of scientific knowledge itself. Engaging and deeply researched, Shaping Science demonstrates the significant influence that the social organization of a scientific team can have on the practices of that team and the results they yield.

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Review Milan M. Ćirković (2021) Review of "Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 263-268). unapi

Review Ramesh Subramanian (January 2022) Review of "Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams". Technology and Culture (pp. 304-306). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jeon, June
Singh, Nikhita
Forrest L. Marion
Massimo Ciccozzi
Crooks, Roderic N.
Bruyninckx, Joeri
Concepts
Ethnography
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Comparison
Robots
Space travel; space flight
Laboratories
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
15th century
Places
United States
Nicaragua
Afghanistan
Thailand
Uganda
Iraq
Institutions
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC)
Place
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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