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Aerospace Bookshelf: Harrison Schmitts Return to the Moon

ASK OCE — November 3, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 15   Since humans are planning to explore the moon again, it makes sense to find out what the last man to walk its surface thinks the future might hold. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt has a lot of ideas about this, and he spells […]

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What’s the Situation?

ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2   It can be a very uncomfortable feeling to sit in a project team staff meeting and realize that several of your team members view things very differently than you do. The glue that’s missing is team situation awareness, according to Bill O’Keefe of […]

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Government Brief: FAA Publishes New Commercial Space Safety Standards

ASK OCE — November 3, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 15   The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Air Force Space Command issued new common federal launch safety standards on August 25, 2006.

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22nd Annual George M. Low Awards: Presented at PM Challenge 2007

ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2   Teledyne Brown Engineering and Barrios Technologies received the George M. Low Award, NASA’s highest honor for quality and technical performance in its contractor community, in a ceremony at PM Challenge 2007 in Galveston, Texas.

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Archimedes Archive: Alessandro Volta, Inventor of the Battery

ASK OCE — November 3, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 15   More than 200 years ago, Italian scientist Alessandro Volta developed the first electrical battery. It represented the first continuous, practical, and reproducible source of electrical current and a critical step in the accelerated study of electromagnetism and the development of electrical components.

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Let’s Talk Risk Management

ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 When experts get together to talk risk management, it becomes clear that there are many perspectives on the elusive question of balance. Boeing’s Joy Bryant, Johnson Spaceflight Center’s (JSC) John Shannon, and NASA Headquarters’ Greg Robinson and John Tinsley sat down with moderator Mike […]

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Message from the Chief Engineer: The Embodiment of Excellence

ASK OCE — November 3, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 15   By Chris Scolese   I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Dr. John Mather of Goddard Space Flight Center for winning the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Integrating Risk and Knowledge Management in ESMD

ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 As the Constellation program moves into high gear, the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) is taking steps to integrate risk and knowledge management through an approach that emphasizes real-time learning as a continuous process. Given that the design and development of the hardware, software, […]

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A View from the Outside: ESA’s Mars Express Survives Ultra-Low Power Eclipse Season

ASK OCE — November 3, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 15   On September 26, 2006, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft completed an unusually demanding eclipse season. The spacecraft functioned in an ultra-low power mode dubbed “Sumo” (short for “survival mode”) that allowed it to conserve the power necessary for its survival […]

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