By Mike Lipka Safety Day is an annual event held at every NASA center and facility. It is a crucial component of the agency’s forward-looking mishap-prevention effort. No two Safety Day events are exactly alike.
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By Don Cohen In an article on the NuSTAR launch delay in the fall 2012 issue of ASK, I wrote, “NuSTAR, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, contains the first focusing telescopes designed to look at high-energy X-ray radiation.”
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By Kerry Ellis Future human space exploration will mean getting beyond low-Earth orbit—and returning safely. Several projects across NASA are working on the challenges that goal presents, among them propulsion alternatives and guidance, navigation, and control. Three years ago, Project Morpheus and the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology project, or ALHAT, began collaborating on advances in these areas.
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By Kerry Ellis Astronaut Don Pettit began his career with NASA seventeen years ago and has since flown on three spaceflight missions.
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How should we describe the different kinds of knowledge activities taking place across NASA?
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NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission’s two instruments come from a line of cutting-edge technologies.
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Doesn’t a new policy just mean another layer of bureaucracy?
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Findings from the inaugural young professionals workshop offer valuable insight for organizations on addressing the needs of the next-generation workforce.
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