Since being tapped by NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe to head the team analyzing the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), your name has been associated with the agency’s efforts to make needed changes. What was the charter of the “Diaz Team” in addressing the CAIB report?
By John Casani I first came to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 48 years ago, and was taught that what’s most important for project success is bringing good people on board, getting them to come together as a team, making certain that they’re all on the same page, and setting up the mechanisms to keep […]
By Ray Morgan The first solar plane we developed at AeroVironment was named the Gossamer Penguin.
By Scott Tibbitts Firm fixed price (FFP) contracting is a sporty proposition. An FFP program that is significantly overrunning will bring a company to its knees. Conversely, when successful, profits can be substantial.
By Annette Simmons ASK Magazine is not alone when it comes to using storytelling to capture lessons learned and share knowledge.
By Major Norman Patnode A while back, I was working on a team to reengineer the Air Force’s logistics process for all the reparable items in the inventory, everything from engines to oxygen regulators to electronic circuit cards.
By Larry Goshorn At ITT Aerospace, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, we build many different kinds of specialty payloads, including some of the workhorse instruments on NASA and NOAA’s meteorological satellites.
By Frank Snow Everything looked good as we started the first day of vibration tests on the High Energy Solar Spectrascopic Imager (HESSI).
By John Casani Getting to Jupiter would be no easy matter, even in the best of conditions — so when we set our schedule, we aimed at having our Galileo spacecraft ready in time to take advantage of a window of opportunity in early 1982, when celestial conditions would favor our mission.
