NASA/TP-2006-214203, NASA TECHNICAL PUBLICATION: LOGISTICS LESSONS LEARNED IN NASA SPACE FLIGHT (MAY 2006)

NASA/TP-2006-214203, NASA TECHNICAL PUBLICATION: LOGISTICS LESSONS LEARNED IN NASA SPACE FLIGHT (MAY 2006)., This report first summarizes current logistics practices for the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) and the International Space Station (ISS) and examines the practices of manifesting, stowage, inventory tracking, waste disposal, and return logistics. The key findings of this examination are that while the current practices do have many positive aspects, there are also several shortcomings. These shortcomings include a high-level of excess complexity, redundancy of information/lack of a common database, and a large human-in-the-loop component.