TY - BOOK AU - Tompkins,Phillip K. TI - Organizational communication imperatives: lessons of the space program SN - 0935732403 (acidfree paper) AV - TL862.G4 .T66 PY - 1993/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Roxbury Pub. Co. KW - Communication in organizations N1 - The Challenger accident -- The imperative of studying organizational communication -- The Marshall Space Center and the Apollo program -- Some problems of communication at the Marshall Center -- Staff and board briefing -- Reorganizing the Marshall Center -- A reading of the Rogers Commission Report -- Feynman's two experiments -- Huntsville revisited -- The Lucas era at MSFC -- Organizational forgetting -- Death and rebirth -- J.R. Thompson's response -- The meaning and future of the space program ER -