Location
Cocoa Beach, FL
Start Date
5-4-1965 8:00 AM
Description
The dynamic nature of the Apollo Program, with its many complexities, demands tomorrow 1 s answers today. To meet this need and provide decision bases upon which to act, the Apollo Program Control Directorate of NASA Headquarters has under continuous development rigorous prediction analysis techniques necessary to the detection of potential weaknesses before they become critical. This work is presently pointed toward predictions of space vehicle weight and performance as related to schedules, cost, and reliability. The prediction analysis technique described here combines applicable domains of classical statistical methods, relevancy devices, mathematical modeling, management decision criteria, electronic computer usage, hardware trade-off and error analyses. The techniques developed are not a cure-all, but do provide engineering and program managers that data necessary to pin-point critical issues, define courses of action and thereby factually support technical and management judgements.
Prediction Analysis and Management Decisions
Cocoa Beach, FL
The dynamic nature of the Apollo Program, with its many complexities, demands tomorrow 1 s answers today. To meet this need and provide decision bases upon which to act, the Apollo Program Control Directorate of NASA Headquarters has under continuous development rigorous prediction analysis techniques necessary to the detection of potential weaknesses before they become critical. This work is presently pointed toward predictions of space vehicle weight and performance as related to schedules, cost, and reliability. The prediction analysis technique described here combines applicable domains of classical statistical methods, relevancy devices, mathematical modeling, management decision criteria, electronic computer usage, hardware trade-off and error analyses. The techniques developed are not a cure-all, but do provide engineering and program managers that data necessary to pin-point critical issues, define courses of action and thereby factually support technical and management judgements.
