By Rick Grammier How do you hit an object zipping through space at 23,000 mph, 268 million miles from Earth, and capture what happens after the impact with a camera 300 miles away? In 1999, a team of more than 250 scientists, engineers, managers, and educators set out to meet that challenge and discover what […]
By Edward Ingraham I began working with Stanford University, the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) prime contractor, in 1993 and worked full time at the contractor’s facilities from 1997 to 2005.
By Lee Graham As I walked though the gates at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the first time, I couldn’t help but smile to myself.
NASA in the News U.S. News & World Report, in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, named Charles Elachi of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as one of “America’s Best Leaders” for 2006.
Here is a description of a book that we believe will interest ASK readers.
By Ed Hoffman What is your story? That question can be taken in many directions. It can express powerful interest or doubt. In Brooklyn, where I grew up, people said, “So, what’s your story?” to make someone reflect on and change foolish behavior.
By Laurence Prusak Sometimes a concept seems to be everywhere at once. It arrives on the scene seemingly from nowhere, and everybody is suddenly talking and writing about it. One such idea is trust.
Here are two true stories about organizational effectiveness. We leave it to you to think about their relevance to NASA and knowledge.
Don Cohen, Managing Editor The articles in this issue of ASK touch on themes already familiar to regular readers of the magazine. Learning from hands-on experience is one.
