ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Highlights of Recent Publications and Awards LaRC Team Uses GPS for Measurement of Earth’s Surface Reflectivity Langley researchers Stephen J. Katzberg, Omar Torres, and Michael S. Grant and Dallas Masters of Colorado University published the results of the first use of calibrated […]
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Great goals require great transformations. After President Kennedy challenged the nation in 1961 to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it became apparent that NASA would have to quicken its pace to meet this goal.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 Efforts to improve knowledge sharing practices were the focus of APPEL’s twelfth Masters Forum, which took place March 8-10 in Herndon, VA.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 U.S. Spaceports “If you build it, they will come.” A growing number of private companies, government agencies, and industry organizations are taking that sentiment to heart by aggressively acting on plans to construct, enhance, and further the use of spaceports in a […]
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 By Chris Scolese In this issue we examine some of the highlights of NASA’s past from the Apollo program and the Intelsat I partnership.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 When times get tough in a bureaucracy, the first thing to change is often the organizational chart. Titles, divisions, and reporting structures inevitably shift from one box to another.
ASK OCE — April 4, 2006 — Vol. 1, 1 Issue 7 The co-owner of Russia’s VSMPO-Avisma, the world’s largest producer of aerospace titanium, has said that he and his partner may sell their shares of the company to Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state-owned arms trading corporation. The move by Rosoboronexport is seen by analysts as part […]
December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12 The practice of science has evolved rapidly over the past century, writes Harvard University professor Steven Shapin.
Ask OCE December 21, 2005 Vol. 1, Issue 1 President Bush signed bill H.R. 2862 into law in November, authorizing NASA’s budget of $16.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2006. NASA’s appropriation represents seven-tenths of one percent of the federal budget. The bill includes $4.5 billion for the shuttle, $1.8 billion for the space station, […]
