Andrew Chaikin discusses the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that led to Apollo’s worst day—the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in January 1967—as well as those modes of behavior that allowed NASA to recover from the accident and accomplish Apollo 11’s lunar landing in July 1969.
The European Space Agency’s Torsten Bieler discusses how ESA uses concurrent engineering.
Evelyn Husband Thompson’s keynote address during national tour moves audience.
It is crucial to learn and understand as much as possible about the causes of human spaceflight mishaps to prevent them from reoccurring and to make future missions as safe as possible.
Abigail Fraeman, deputy project scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover mission, discusses the Opportunity rover mission.
The importance of vibration testing in qualifying and accepting spaceflight hardware cannot be overstated, but the testing also introduces significant programmatic risk.
In this session, we focused on how effective managers achieve their goals even when their projects face ambiguity, volatility and challenges.
Joe Gasbarre, NASA Science Mission Directorate Chief Engineer, discusses the engineering side of science missions.
Reflecting and learning from an accident can be an emotionally painful process, but also extremely important to improving safety in the future.
