December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Too high for weather balloons, too low for satellites, the “ignorosphere” can’t hide from the TIMED mission, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its launch this month. We’re all a little less ignorant about what lies 40-110 miles above us, thanks to the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics […]
December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Infrastructure is all around us, and yet most of us rarely give it a second thought.
December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Academy Director Dr. Ed Hoffman met with representatives of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to discuss an international agreement on project manager and workforce development.
December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 TDRS K project manager Jeff Gramling shared some thoughts with ASK the Academy on managing a communications satellite project.
December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Nearly a year after opening, Kennedy Space Center’s Propellants North Administrative and Maintenance Facility serves as a test bed for a new wave of infrastructure at NASA.
December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Daniel Kahneman reflects on a lifetime of learning about how we actually make decisions.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 NASA won a GreenGov Presidential Award based on nine NASA projects that were nominated, including the Academy’s “Green Engineering” course.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 The paradox of project execution is that it requires both single-minded focus and the flexibility to change course when needed.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Principal investigators, project managers, and project scientists gathered to exchange stories and knowledge at the fourth Principal Investigator Team Masters Forum in Annapolis, Maryland.
