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A U.S. Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper inside, as his fellow team members bring up the floatation gear to be attached to the spacecraft. The main chute floats at top left, and the ejected reserve chute floats at the lower right of the spacecraft in the green dye area. Photo Credit: NASA
From Spaceman to Geronimo

The latest hit song by the Counting Crows (after a six-year gap) now rides the airway, and in one line of its Beatlesque word associating imagery, Adam Duritz jubilantly sings a verse, launching with a bracing “Spaceman!” and ending with a crooning “Geronimo!”

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Knowledge 2020 Conference
Knowledge 2020 to be Held at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA Knowledge Points of Contact, and project and program practitioners are all coming together for a unique knowledge sharing and problem solving event at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), October 21st – 23rd, 2014.

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David Meza and a cluster of “Spacecraft” search. Image Credit: NASA / JSC Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer
On Developing Better Magnets for Finding Needles in Haystacks

When NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Ed Hoffman travels to NASA centers in support of APPEL project management and engineering courses, he often partners with the local CKO to facilitate a segment on finding knowledge at NASA.

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An interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module and the "mailbox." The "mailbox" was a jerry-rigged arrangement which the Apollo 13 astronauts built to use the Command Module lithium hydroxide canisters to purge carbon dioxide from the Lunar Module. Lithium hydroxide is used to scrub CO2 from the spacecraft atmosphere. Since there was a limited amount of lithium hydroxide in the Lunar Module, this arrangement was rigged up using the canisters from the Command Module. The "mailbox" was designed and tested on the ground at the Manned Spacecraft Center before it was suggested to the problem-plagued Apollo 13 crewmen. Because of the explosion of an oxygen tank in the Service Module, the three astronauts had to use the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat." Photp Credit: NASA
Thinking Like a Five-Year-Old

There are actually several Tom and Jerry cartoons in which Jerry (the mouse) rescues a goldfish from Tom (the cat).  Inevitably, in one of these episodes, a fish bowl filled with water descends upon Tom’s head only to encase it.  

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Ed Hoffman, Mark Langley, and David Oberhettinger. Photo Credit: Department of Transportation (DOT)
PMI President Langley Visits the Federal Knowledge Management Community Meeting

On September 5, 2014, the Department of Transportation (DOT) hosted the 16th Meeting of the Federal Knowledge Community (FKMC) for a special meeting featuring the Project Management Institute’s President and CEO, Mark Langley.

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Cassini inserts itself into Saturn’s orbit for a five-month rendezvous. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, David Seal
Known Things with Feathers for Flight

As school children, one of our earliest lessons in astronomy is this: all of the planets in our solar system—with the notable exception of the Earth—bear the names of Roman gods. 

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This is an image of lessons learned being distilled in an old fashioned still. Image Credit: Marshall Space Flight Center
Distilling and Infusing Lessons at Marshall

With her diverse systems engineering background, Jennifer Stevens is a natural to lead the recently established Marshall Distilling Team.

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The deployment of the flag of the United States on the surface of the moon is captured on film during the first Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Here, astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, stands on the left at the flag's staff. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is also pictured. The picture was taken from film exposed by the 16mm Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) which was mounted in the Lunar Module (LM). While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit. Photo Credit: NASA
One Giant Leap for Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge

Forty-five years ago this month, we landed a man—actually two—on the moon, and the world raised the bar to success by a skyward leap.

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The maiden launch of space shuttle Challenger, which carried the first TDRS satellite to orbit. Photo Credit: NASA
Knowledge to Talent Article in July issue of T + D Magazine

NASA CKO address in professional publication the core issues of critical knowledge.

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