Systems Engineering by Ricardo Valerdi
Industrial Engineer's quarterly column about systems engineering (August 2012)
A new era of space exploration
May 22 was a historic day in the space industry. Falcon 9, built by Space Exploration Technologies (aka SpaceX) in California, launched into outer space and a few days later became the first privately built spacecraft to visit the International Space Station.
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