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A requirements planning system for the Space Shuttle Operations schedule
Author(s) -
Steinberg Earl,
Lee William B.,
Khumawala Basheer M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.649
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1873-1317
pISSN - 0272-6963
DOI - 10.1016/0272-6963(80)90014-5
Subject(s) - space shuttle , schedule , aeronautics , operations research , computer science , scheduling (production processes) , space (punctuation) , project planning , operations management , systems engineering , project management , aerospace engineering , engineering , operating system
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is charged with developing a Flight Operations Planning Schedule for Space Shuttle Operations in the 1980s. During this decade, NASA plans to launch up to thirty space shuttle flights per year when the program reaches the mature phase. Traditional planning techniques for space flights (PERT‐type models) are inadequate for this task because of their inability to resolve conflicts arising from multiple demands for limited resources generated by numerous simultaneous projects (space flights). This paper describes a requirements planning system developed by the authors and adopted by NASA for this resource constrained multiple project scheduling problem.