September 5, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 8 On September 29, 1988, Space Shuttle Discovery launched into orbit exactly 975 days after the Challenger disaster.
September 5, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 8 With a workforce spread across ten field centers, NASA has plenty of “knowledge nomads” who move from one organization to another.
September 5, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 8 What does a theory about international relations have to do with project leadership? More than meets the eye.
September 5, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 8 The National Science Foundation has begun a program to develop very small satellites that can further the study of space weather.
October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9 The evidence of great leadership manifests itself in great judgment, according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis.
October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9 Space debris poses an increasing threat to space security, according to Space Security 2008, the fifth annual report by spacesecurity.org.
October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9 In early September 2005, the Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center received an unexpected call from Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the launch vehicle for New Horizons, NASAs long-planned mission to Pluto.
October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9 In the spirit of NASA’s fiftieth anniversary, ASK the Academy looks back forty years to a letter written by George S. Trimble, Deputy Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) from 1967-1969, on the definition of systems engineering.
October 1, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 9 Knowledge sharing is a critical pillar of the Academy’s professional development framework that is central to its efforts to build a community of reflective practitioners across NASA.
