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 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3 By Chris Scolese When Administrator Griffin selected me to serve as Chief Engineer, my mandate was clear: to improve engineering by incorporating technical excellence and engineering authority into the day-to-day engineering processes for all of NASA’s activities. Since Columbia, we have learned and grown […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3 January 28, 1986 is a day etched in the memories of everyone associated with NASA at the time. The impact of the Challenger disaster was not confined to NASA, of course; it was a national tragedy. The loss of the seven-person crew on […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3 by Maarten Sierhuis, Ames Research Center NASA projects are inherently collaborative efforts. There are no solo ventures. Many require the work of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals over the course of their life cycles. Anyone who tries to track all the moving […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 3 Four days after a capsule from the Stardust explorer successfully returned to Earth from a seven-year journey of almost three billion miles, the fastest spacecraft in history began a three billion mile trip of its own to Pluto. The Stardust capsule landed as […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 4 Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Science, expressed concern with President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget for science programs at NASA. While saying he was “elated” by the President’s proposal for overall spending on science research and education in fiscal […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 4 Japan’s space agency JAXA plans to launch MTSAT-2, the second in a pair of satellites, on Saturday, February 18 from an H-IIA launch vehicle at the Tanegashima Space Center. MTSAT-2 has both aeronautical and a meteorological mission objectives. It is expected to play […]
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 4 NASA employees are routinely called upon to solve problems that require high levels of creativity and coordination from project teams.
Ask OCE — February 8, 2006 — Vol. 1, Issue 4 NASA would benefit from consistent, agency-wide project management practices and standardized product development criteria across its centers, according to a December report by the General Accountability Office (GAO).
