ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 On May 4, 1989, Magellan was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time that a planetary spacecraft was launched via the space shuttle. This Atlantis took Magellan into low Earth orbit and then released it from […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 One hundred years ago, aviation pioneer Traian Vuia successfully took off and landed in his Vuia 1 airplane.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 Tiny devices that can be directed to self-assemble. A “thinking” spacecraft. Engineering materials many times lighter and many times stronger than anything available today. Welcome to the transformational world of NASA nanotechnology. By definition, nanotechnology, or “nano,: is the creation of functional […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 When Johnson Space Center’s Kim Ess took the reins of the Space Shuttle’s Orbiter Boom Sensor project in the wake of the Columbia disaster, she was told she had less than a year to develop a system that was absolutely critical to the […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 All speech is persuasive. A speech or presentation is an opportunity to change the hearts and minds of an audience, but most speakers appeal too much to the mind and forget the heart.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 Nearly one thousand professionals from NASA, industry, academia, and aerospace associations attended APPEL’s Project Management Challenge 2006 conference on March 21-22 in Galveston, Texas.
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 NASA representation is imperative in the upcoming Department of Defense certification process for the National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), according to a report released in late March by the Government Accountability Office. The NPOESS project has been involved in as assessment of […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin told the House Appropriations Committee that delays to the Crew Exploration Vehicle could be strategically damaging to the nation’s space program. “A longer gap in U.S. human spaceflight capabilities will increase risk and overall costs and lead to […]
ASK OCE — May 10, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 8 By Chris Scolese This issue provides a summary of the Program and Projects Management Challenge Conference as well as a discussion of the NPOESS program and the future of human space flight. All three of these are linked by the need for […]
