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EDEM simulation of dust particles being removed from a dust screen under the influence of an electric field.
Innovative Partnership Finds Answers to Modeling Lunar Dust

By Carol Anne Dunn, Carlos Calle, and Richard LaRoche   To learn more about managing lunar dust, NASA and a simulation technology company pool their expertise.   A major problem facing manned or unmanned missions to the moon is lunar dust.

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Special Pullout: Academy Sharing Knowledge

NASA’s ASK Magazine gives program and project managers, engineers, and scientists a way to share expertise and lessons learned with fellow practitioners. This is only one way ASK helps share knowledge as part of NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership.

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Ceiling of The Silence at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration's Shipyard.
The Potential of a New Workplace

By Naoki Ogiwara   In Europe and Japan, “Future Centers” feature spaces designed to enhance creative thinking.

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Jamming with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

By Katrina Pugh and Jo Ann Endo   “Jamming” is an effective technique for sharing organizational knowledge. What do you do when you have valuable knowledge spread among multiple people in multiple organizations, and they don’t consider themselves experts?

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Rescue workers practice a dry run with one of the capsules used to liberate the trapped miners at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, on October 11, 2010.
Applied Knowledge: NASA Aids the Chilean Rescue Effort

By Don Cohen   In the summer and fall of 2010, the world followed the story of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and celebrated their successful rescue in October.

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The Innovation Paradox
The Innovation Paradox

By Ed Hoffman   Sometimes organizational “support” kills good new ideas. Entrenched ways of doing things and bureaucratic caution can and do discourage innovation in organizations, but even organizational support for new ideas can be a mixed blessing.

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ASK Interactive 41
ASK Interactive (ASK 41)

NASA in the News   NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way.

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On the Cover — Issue 41, Winter 2011

The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth.

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Interview with Jill Prince

The Langley engineer talks about the challenges of aerobraking and the value of “diving right in” at the start of a NASA career.   Jill Prince has been an aerospace engineer at Langley Research Center since 1999. She was recently awarded a Women in Aerospace Achievement Award for her work on autonomous aerobraking. Don Cohen […]

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