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ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Efforts to improve knowledge sharing practices were the focus of APPEL’s twelfth Masters Forum, which took place March 8-10 in Herndon, VA.

Ask OCE — January 12, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 2 Helios 2, a joint venture between West Germany and the United States, was launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket on January 15, 1976. The second in a pair of nearly identical interplanetary probes sent to observe the sun and its solar wind, it carried the […]

Ask OCE — February 24, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 5   On February 20, 1962, Friendship 7 (MA-6) embarked on its historic voyage into space, making astronaut John Glenn the first American to orbit the earth.

ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 U.S. Spaceports   “If you build it, they will come.” A growing number of private companies, government agencies, and industry organizations are taking that sentiment to heart by aggressively acting on plans to construct, enhance, and further the use of spaceports in a […]

Ask OCE — January 12, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 2   Remarks delivered by Chris Scolese at the Risk Management Conference (RMC VI), Orlando, FL December 6, 2005

Ask OCE — February 24, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 5   Steve Fossett, piloting the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer broke his own record for the longest flight in aviation history after making an emergency landing on February 11th at Bournemouth Airport, in England. Fossett traveled 26,389.3 miles in 76 hours 45 minutes.

ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7   By Chris Scolese   In this issue we examine some of the highlights of NASA’s past from the Apollo program and the Intelsat I partnership.

Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3   “It’s the wrong thing to be doing,” I told the Director of Engineering, trying to head off a last-minute change in our X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) project.

Ask OCE — February 24, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 5   By Chris Scolese   The primary goal of my tenure as Chief Engineer is to refine our way of doing business so that over the long term, technical excellence, safety, and mission success become part of the fabric of our institution. There are […]