ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 Nobody understood better than the legendary Dr. Wernher Von Braun that mistakes are an unavoidable fact of life in aerospace development. Von Braun made a point of encouraging his team members to be forthcoming about their mistakes. In an anecdote that he recalled […]
ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 By Chris Scolese NASA is breaking new ground in space exploration. The concepts, technologies, and components being assessed and developed will enable capabilities that are neither fully defined nor even imagined at this time.
ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 A new Space Race is on. A growing number of American and international companies are joining the fray with the thumbs-up from international governments, private sector advocates, and even NASA – to provide space travel and space transport services more economically and to more […]
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 On April 6, 1965, NASA launched the world’s first commercial communications satellite Intelsat I (a.k.a. Early Bird) into a geosynchronous orbit above earth.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 NASA’s Space Technology 5 (ST5) successfully launched on March 22, 2006, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a Pegasus XL rocket. ST5 is testing new micro-spacecraft technologies and operations’ techniques. The three spacecraft will conduct science validation using measurements of the […]
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Highlights of Recent Publications and Awards LaRC Team Uses GPS for Measurement of Earth’s Surface Reflectivity Langley researchers Stephen J. Katzberg, Omar Torres, and Michael S. Grant and Dallas Masters of Colorado University published the results of the first use of calibrated […]
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Great goals require great transformations. After President Kennedy challenged the nation in 1961 to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it became apparent that NASA would have to quicken its pace to meet this goal.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Efforts to improve knowledge sharing practices were the focus of APPEL’s twelfth Masters Forum, which took place March 8-10 in Herndon, VA.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 U.S. Spaceports “If you build it, they will come.” A growing number of private companies, government agencies, and industry organizations are taking that sentiment to heart by aggressively acting on plans to construct, enhance, and further the use of spaceports in a […]
