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Archimedes Archive: The Turtle

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   At midnight, September 7, 1776, a revolutionary naval craft made its way slowly and silently down the Hudson River towards the mighty British fleet that was anchored in New York Harbor.

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Copy That: Progress in Rapid Prototyping

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 Robots that can alter their electronic brains and body structures. Machines that can autonomously reproduce themselves exponentially. It’s not the plot of a Hollywood sci-fi movie. Efforts are well underway to make the next generation of rapid prototyping systems a reality. A research group […]

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Government Brief: FAA Publishes New Commercial Space Safety Standards

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Air Force Space Command issued new common federal launch safety standards (PDF) on August 25, 2006.

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A View From Outside: Russia and China to Collaborate on Mars Mission

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   China and Russia are currently finalizing plans to collaborate on a joint mission to Mars, according to a leading Chinese space research scientist. Ye Peijian, a scientist with the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology, made the announcement on August 23, 2006, at […]

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Reaching for the APEX at Ames

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   How can an organization create an environment for project management or systems engineering development that gets beyond the sink-or-swim paradigm? Claire Smith and Ron Johnson of Ames Research Center (ARC) have asked themselves this question many times over the past several years. “Everyone […]

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First-Person Perspective: NASA History

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   by Stephen J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian   In this special feature, NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick offers insights about the NASA History Division and the resources it offers. The NASA History Division is almost as old as NASA itself, having been […]

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Leadership Corner: Rickover on Doing a Job

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   Few, if any, leaders have had a greater influence on the management of high-reliability technical organizations than the late Admiral Hyman Rickover. The so-called “father of the nuclear Navy” had a management philosophy that emphasized high standards, excellent people, and personal accountability. The […]

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This Week in NASA History: JFK Challenges U.S. to Reach Moon by Decade’s End

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined the bold challenge of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade in a speech given on the football field of Rice University. “We choose to go to the moon. […]

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Message from the Chief Engineer: The Significance of the Crew Exploration Vehicle

ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14   By Chris Scolese   The Vision for Space Exploration presents NASA with an extraordinary set of challenges that will set the course of the Agency for years to come. One of the most exciting and ambitious of these is the development of a […]

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