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Advanced Turboprop Project
This Month in NASA History: Advanced Turboprop Project
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 Twenty-five years ago, an old technology project earned Lewis Research Center the Collier Trophy.

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Toward a History of the Space Shuttle
Academy Bookshelf: A History of the Space Shuttle, Part Deux
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 A new NASA History Office publication offers an annotated history of the Space Shuttle Programs final 20 years.

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BLAST project team with their payload at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
View from Above: BLAST! the movie
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 How often do you need to wear sunglasses to do physics?

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Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large, however, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster.
Academy Brief: Embraer Benchmarking with NASA
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 How does knowledge work happen in an organization?

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NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Endeavour on top lifts off to begin its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Knowledge Brief: Shuttle Knowledge Console v3.0
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 Johnson Space Center (JSC) offers new knowledge resources on the Space Shuttle Program.

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A burst of flame from a J-2X Powerpack test-firing lights up the sky on Dec. 5, 2012 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. For the first time, the Space Launch System team invited Twitter followers behind-the-scenes for an all-day Tweet Chat, allowing the public to track test day activities and ask questions during this 1,286-second test.
CKO Corner: SSC’s John Stealey
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 John Stealey shares his insights about knowledge management at Stennis Space Center.

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This image shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012. Very precise measurements between two spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, were used to map gravity with high precision and high spatial resolution.
Message from the Director: Measuring Up
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 What is benchmarking and why do it anyway?

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Langley CKO Manjula Ambur
CKO Corner: LaRC’s Manjula Ambur
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Langley Research Center’s Manjula Ambur shares her insights about knowledge management at her center.

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The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012. The action was captured in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It seems possible that the disruption to the Sun’s magnetic field might have triggered the second event since they were in relatively close proximity to each other. The expanding particle clouds heading into space do not appear to be Earth-directed.
Message from the Director: The Half-Life of Knowledge
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Unlike physical elements, it is hard to guess the half-life of knowledge in advance.

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