Knowledge Category: Articles & Publications

April 3, 2008 Vol. 1. Issue 3   If you’ve been at NASA five years or less, Foundations of Aerospace at NASA is for you.

April 3, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 3   What is the relationship between leadership and power? It depends on the leaders, the followers, and the context, according to Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

April 3, 2008 Vol 1, Issue 3   The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched Jules Verne, the first of its new line of cargo-hauling Automotive Transfer Vehicles (ATV), into low earth orbit from the Guiana Space Center in Korou, French Guiana, on March 9, 2008.

April 3, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 3   ASK the Academy posed five questions to former NASA Administrator Dr. Robert A. Frosch.

April 3, 2008 Vol 1, Issue 3   NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin told a House subcommittee that the President’s FY 2009 budget request for NASA represents a substantial step forward in responding to the recommendations of the National Research Councils first decadal survey of Earth Science.

April 3, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 3   On March 24, 1996, during Atlantis shuttle mission STS-76, astronaut Shannon W. Lucid boarded Russian space station Mir for a five-month stay, marking her place in history as the first U.S. woman to fly aboard the space station.

April 3, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 3   We asked roughly seventy senior practitioners who attended the Academys April 2007 Masters Forum to answer the question, “How do you learn to do your job?” Their answers provided a wealth of insight about learning at NASA.

May 6, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 4   Microsoft Corporation is scheduled to debut the World Wide Telescope, a free web-based program that promises users comprehensive, seamless pans amidst all the latest captured astronomical imagery from across the globe and sky.

May 6, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 4   NASA’s Space Biology Research Program should be adequately funded, concludes a new report by the National Research Council.