ASK Magazine Staff

NASA in the News NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets near sun-like stars, has discovered its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.

Don Cohen, Managing Editor In his Knowledge Notebook piece (“How Organizations Learn Anything”), Laurence Prusak says that most effective learning comes from hands-on experience combined with reflection on that experience. He notes that many organizations give short shrift to the reflection part.

In November 2006, then-NASA Chief Engineer Chris Scolese brought together an advisory group of aerospace veterans to think about creative ways of giving young NASA employees the skills they will need to lead future projects and programs.

NASA in the News NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon’s surface in a search for water ice.

NASA in the News To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo program’s achievements, including the first moon landing, NASA has put together a collection of historic images, videos, personal stories and recollections, and more interactive features found here.

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NASA in the News NASA announced plans to partner with Microsoft to develop technology that will make planetary images and data more readily available to the public.

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NASA Art Program The NASA Art Program was founded by James Dean in 1962 to record the history of space exploration through different media and genres in order to reach, educate, and inspire a variety of audiences.