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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: End-to-End-Redundancy-Analysis
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: End-to-End Redundancy Analysis

Redundancy and failure analysis should extend beyond end items and the subsystem under design and consider potential failure scenarios for all relevant interfacing subsystems. 

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Best Practices for the Elemental Profiling of High-Purity Hydrazine
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Best Practices for the Elemental Profiling of High-Purity Hydrazine

Best practices for conducting high-purity hydrazine elemental analysis processes must be followed to avoid sample contamination that could impact space missions.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Copper Tube Pinch Failure

While pinching copper tubes is a standard practice for many applications on Earth, it presents challenges for spaceflight applications.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Thermal Vacuum Lamp Spectrum

Potential modeling inaccuracy may be avoided in thermal vacuum tests by using heater plates instead of quartz lamps.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Integrated Cross-cutting Approach to Environmental Compliance and Risk Reduction
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Integrated Cross-cutting Approach to Environmental Compliance and Risk Reduction

The Space Shuttle Transition and Retirement team demonstrated that identifying a cross-cutting environmental function and having an integrated team are essential to successful management and disposition of a large amount of property.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Evolution of KSC EGS Post Space Shuttle – Success Factors and Lessons Learned
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Evolution of KSC EGS Post Space Shuttle – Success Factors and Lessons Learned

Exploration Ground Systems Program challenges, solutions and lessons learned since the end of the Space Shuttle Program have been captured in an effort to transfer the knowledge to NASA program and project managers.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: SpaceWire Cable Fabrication and Installation
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: SpaceWire Cable Fabrication and Installation

Problems experienced with SpaceWire cable used in flight hardware intended for deployment on the International Space Station resulted in lessons learned and recommendations to help avoid similar issues.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Vibration “Over-Testing” Close Call
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Vibration “Over-Testing” Close Call

The importance of vibration testing in qualifying and accepting spaceflight hardware cannot be overstated, but the testing also introduces significant programmatic risk.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: High Pressure Industrial Water Valve Actuator Assembly Failure
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: High Pressure Industrial Water Valve Actuator Assembly Failure

The failure of a high pressure industrial water valve actuator assembly at a NASA test stand underscored the need for disciplined configuration control practices to ensure facility systems are built and maintained to the specified design.

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