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This Week in NASA History: Pioneer 10 and 11

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2nd 1972, undertaking a mission to explore Jupiter. Its mission ended 31 March 1997. Pioneer’s final, faint signal was received on 23 January 2003, more than 30 years after launch.

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APPEL Holds Masters Forum, PM Challenge

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 APPEL held the twelfth Masters Forum in Herndon, VA, on March 8-10, with a full line-up of NASA and industry veterans on hand to share stories and wisdom with approximately 67 current program/project managers and engineers.

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Common Traits of Great Groups and Their Leaders

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 The Manhattan Project. The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Apple Computer. The Lockheed Skunk Works. Walt Disney Studio animators.

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CPMR Spotlighted in Engineering Management Journal

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 Engineering Management Journal, the flagship quarterly publication of the American Society for Engineering Management, devoted its entire December issue to the Center for Program/Project Management Research (CPMR), a partnership between NASA APPEL and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

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Admitting Mistakes: A Lesson from Wernher Von Braun

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6   Nobody understood better than the legendary Dr. Wernher Von Braun that mistakes are an unavoidable fact of life in aerospace development. Von Braun made a point of encouraging his team members to be forthcoming about their mistakes. In an anecdote that he recalled […]

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Message from the Chief Engineer: Engineering Philosophy

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6   By Chris Scolese   NASA is breaking new ground in space exploration. The concepts, technologies, and components being assessed and developed will enable capabilities that are neither fully defined nor even imagined at this time.

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A View From Outside: Space Race, Version 2.0

ASK OCE — March 17, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 6 A new Space Race is on. A growing number of American and international companies are joining the fray with the thumbs-up from international governments, private sector advocates, and even NASA – to provide space travel and space transport services more economically and to more […]

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