ASK OCE — June, 14, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 9 For years, residents in landlocked Baikonur, Kazakhstan, have become accustomed to the fallout associated with living near a busy Russian launch facility. Flaming spacecrafts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome crash to Earth two or more times a month. That’s about to change. The Russian Space […]
ASK OCE — August 4, 2006 — Vol. 1 Issue 11 Project management is becoming a more mature discipline across the federal government, says Greg Balestrero, CEO of the Project Management Institute.
ASK OCE — August 31, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 13 The European Space Agency’s SMART-1 spacecraft successfully completed its mission when it collided with the lunar surface as planned on September 3, 2006. The SMART-1 impact took place on the near side of the moon. The time and location of the impact was […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 On May 4, 1989, Magellan was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time that a planetary spacecraft was launched via the space shuttle. This Atlantis took Magellan into low Earth orbit and then released it from […]
ASK OCE — June, 14, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 9 On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger carried Dr. Sally Ride into orbit on flight STS-7, making her the first American woman in space. During the mission, the five-member crew deployed a pair of communications satellites for Canada and Indonesia, performed the first satellite […]
ASK OCE — August 4, 2006 — Vol. 1 Issue 11 NASA’s science portfolio is in danger of becoming unbalanced due to cutbacks, according to a report by the National Research Council.
ASK OCE — August 31, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 13 The three micro-satellites known as Space Technology 5 (ST5), each no bigger than a 13-inch television and weighing a mere 55 pounds, completed their planned 90-day orbital mission on Friday, June 30, when the ST5 mission team shut down the spacecraft.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 One hundred years ago, aviation pioneer Traian Vuia successfully took off and landed in his Vuia 1 airplane.
ASK OCE — June, 14, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 9 By Chris Scolese This issue addresses several efforts that the Office of the Chief Engineer is taking to improve NASA’s engineering capability as the Agency orients itself toward implementing the President’s Vision for Space Exploration. The success of the Vision ultimately will ultimately […]
