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ASK OCE — August 4, 2006 — Vol. 1 Issue 11   Apollo 15, the fourth manned mission to the moon, explored the lunar surface July 30-August 2, 1971.

ASK OCE — August 31, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 13   Over the next decade NASA, along with other federal agencies and private industry, should focus its civil aeronautics research and technology efforts on inter-sector cooperation and practical applicability, according to a survey by the National Research Council. The National Research Council’s Committee on […]

ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8     Tiny devices that can be directed to self-assemble. A “thinking” spacecraft. Engineering materials many times lighter and many times stronger than anything available today. Welcome to the transformational world of NASA nanotechnology. By definition, nanotechnology, or “nano,: is the creation of functional […]

ASK OCE — July 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 10   Dr. Henry Petroski, a professor of both civil engineering and history at Duke University, is one of the nation’s foremost writers on engineering.

ASK OCE — August 4, 2006 — Vol. 1 Issue 11   China aims to conduct a moonwalk by 2024, according to China National Space Administration lunar program vice director Long Lehao. The Chinese Chang’e program consists of a series of unmanned missions to the Moon. The program was announced in 2003 and is named […]

ASK OCE — August 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 12   On August 30, 1983, Guion S. Bluford, a mission specialist on STS-8, became the first African-American in space.

ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8   When Johnson Space Center’s Kim Ess took the reins of the Space Shuttle’s Orbiter Boom Sensor project in the wake of the Columbia disaster, she was told she had less than a year to develop a system that was absolutely critical to the […]

ASK OCE — July 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 10 When a project runs into serious trouble, aerospace veterans can usually trace the difficulties back to a core set of problems that occur over and over.

ASK OCE — August 4, 2006 — Vol. 1 Issue 11   By Chris Scolese   A hallmark of great organizations is effective internal communication. At the dawn of the Information Age, when command-and-control structures were the norm for businesses and government agencies, communication usually flowed in one direction: down from the top. This is […]