ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 At midnight, September 7, 1776, a revolutionary naval craft made its way slowly and silently down the Hudson River towards the mighty British fleet that was anchored in New York Harbor.
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 Robots that can alter their electronic brains and body structures. Machines that can autonomously reproduce themselves exponentially. It’s not the plot of a Hollywood sci-fi movie. Efforts are well underway to make the next generation of rapid prototyping systems a reality. A research group […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and U.S. Air Force Space Command issued new common federal launch safety standards (PDF) on August 25, 2006.
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 China and Russia are currently finalizing plans to collaborate on a joint mission to Mars, according to a leading Chinese space research scientist. Ye Peijian, a scientist with the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology, made the announcement on August 23, 2006, at […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 How can an organization create an environment for project management or systems engineering development that gets beyond the sink-or-swim paradigm? Claire Smith and Ron Johnson of Ames Research Center (ARC) have asked themselves this question many times over the past several years. “Everyone […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 by Stephen J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian In this special feature, NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick offers insights about the NASA History Division and the resources it offers. The NASA History Division is almost as old as NASA itself, having been […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 Few, if any, leaders have had a greater influence on the management of high-reliability technical organizations than the late Admiral Hyman Rickover. The so-called “father of the nuclear Navy” had a management philosophy that emphasized high standards, excellent people, and personal accountability. The […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined the bold challenge of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade in a speech given on the football field of Rice University. “We choose to go to the moon. […]
ASK OCE — September 20, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 14 By Chris Scolese The Vision for Space Exploration presents NASA with an extraordinary set of challenges that will set the course of the Agency for years to come. One of the most exciting and ambitious of these is the development of a […]
