ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 Remarks delivered at Project Management Challenge 2007 on February 7, 2007 By Chris Scolese I’m grateful to have the opportunity to speak with you today. PM Challenge is one of the few chances we have to come together from our individual organizations […]
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 NASA launched the reconnaissance satellite Discoverer 1 for the U.S. Air Force on February 28, 1959.
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 Dr. John Marburger, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), testified about the President’s request for NASA in Fiscal Year 2008 before the House Science and Technology Committee.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 On May 4, 1989, Magellan was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time that a planetary spacecraft was launched via the space shuttle. This Atlantis took Magellan into low Earth orbit and then released it from […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 One hundred years ago, aviation pioneer Traian Vuia successfully took off and landed in his Vuia 1 airplane.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 Tiny devices that can be directed to self-assemble. A “thinking” spacecraft. Engineering materials many times lighter and many times stronger than anything available today. Welcome to the transformational world of NASA nanotechnology. By definition, nanotechnology, or “nano,: is the creation of functional […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 When Johnson Space Center’s Kim Ess took the reins of the Space Shuttle’s Orbiter Boom Sensor project in the wake of the Columbia disaster, she was told she had less than a year to develop a system that was absolutely critical to the […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 All speech is persuasive. A speech or presentation is an opportunity to change the hearts and minds of an audience, but most speakers appeal too much to the mind and forget the heart.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 Nearly one thousand professionals from NASA, industry, academia, and aerospace associations attended APPEL’s Project Management Challenge 2006 conference on March 21-22 in Galveston, Texas.
