Volume 1

December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12   The first International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1958 was a landmark that helped usher in the Space Age.

October 30, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 10   If a system is both digital and interactive, it falls under design guru Bill Moggridge’s broad definition of interaction design.

December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12   The Academy has developed several recent case studies related to NASA science missions.

July 17, 2008 Vol. 1 Issue 6   NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin told a Senate Subcommittee that extending Space Shuttle operations beyond FY 2010 would have “serious budgetary and schedule repercussions for the Constellation program.”

October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9   Space debris poses an increasing threat to space security, according to Space Security 2008, the fifth annual report by spacesecurity.org.

August 7, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 7   The insights of Kurt Lewin, one of the founding fathers of social psychology, have relevance for a project-based environment like NASA.

October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9   In early September 2005, the Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center received an unexpected call from Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the launch vehicle for New Horizons, NASAs long-planned mission to Pluto.

August 7, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 7   Rep. Nick Lampson (TX-22) of the House Committee on Science and Technology expressed grave concerns about the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).

October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9   In the spirit of NASA’s fiftieth anniversary, ASK the Academy looks back forty years to a letter written by George S. Trimble, Deputy Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) from 1967-1969, on the definition of systems engineering.