ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 For more than 550 years, mankind has had the ability to observe and measure the pressure and velocity of the wind through the use of the anemometer.
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 The European Space Agency’s Venus Express is capturing new images of Venus’s atmosphere. In an effort to obtain better imagery of the planet’s stormy south pole, scientists operating the Ultraviolet, Visible and Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIRTIS) tried a new approach. They focused on […]
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 As the CEO and Chairman of what may be the largest private company in the world, Charles G. Koch has a highly developed idea of what it takes to build a successful enterprise. In his forty years at the helm of Koch Industries, […]
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 Two NASA scientists, Edward C. Stone and Emmett Chappelle, have been recognized for their outstanding lifetime achievements.
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 By Chris Scolese Two new NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) documents developed by the Office of the Chief Engineer establish common Agency-wide requirements for project management and systems engineering. NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements (NPR 7120.5D) defines project management requirements […]
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 The Senate Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences held hearings on March 28, 2007, on NASA’s transition from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation program.
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and issued a bold challenge: to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
ASK OCE — May 29, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 3 By Edward Calder, MIT, and Bradley Jones, NASA JSC & Stanford University A management study of NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission, a 40-year NASA-Stanford collaboration, sheds light on the challenges senior managers face when developing an extremely complex system that requires […]
