INSIGHT

Knowledge is an important product that comes out of all of NASA’s project work.

The crew of Skylab 3 made crucial repairs to the space station and dramatically pushed the boundaries of time in space.

After dramatically increasing scientific understanding of Pluto, the space probe is aimed for an encounter in the icy Kuiper Belt to return the most distant images ever taken.

NASA has a rich history and an exciting future advancing aeronautics research to make air travel, safer, quieter, and more efficient.

Wheel design for the Mars 2020 project includes modifications to increase durability over harsh Martian terrain based on lessons learned from operational use of the wheel design of its predecessor, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover.

Ambitious mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and return regolith samples to Earth enters exciting new phase. 

In this VPMC, NASA systems engineers illustrated how they successfully applied their habits to their project work and how others might develop their project management competencies.

NASA developed and instituted an independent technical authority process after the Space Shuttle Columbia accident occurred. The technical authority model is designed to develop policy and procedural requirements and standards for program and project management when applicable and appropriate.

Realizing each team member had to become familiar with each discipline’s processes in order to increase productivity for the entire team is one of the key lessons learned from the disposition of International Space Station hardware when the Space Shuttle Program ended.