Even before the International Space Station (ISS) declared assembly complete in 2011, the orbiting outpost had been open to scientists and researchers. To encourage its use as a technology and research laboratory and test bed, a new classification of flight hardware was proposed – Experimental Flight Hardware, classification 1-E.
As with any exploratory expedition, whether it be Columbus’s journey to find the New World, Ernest Shackleton’s polar expedition, or NASA preparing for humans to return to the moon to stay, providing the crew light-weight, compact, nutritious and tasty food is a challenge.
In this interactive case study you will be presented with a real management situation faced by the NASA-contracted Southwest Research Institute team during the groundwork of the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) mission. As the Project Manager you will need to respond in the most effective and timely manner possible. Your decision will directly […]
A failure in Cassini’s telemetry system as the spacecraft approached Saturn, after a multi-year journey through deep space, posed a critical problem for the mission management team. Find out how they resolved the issue.
Public papers and presentations on Goddard’s learning plan, organizational learning, building a healthy organization, top myths about knowledge management, facilitating lessons learned and pause and learn sessions (also called after action reviews) and other interviews and articles posted on Goddard’s OCKO Webpage
This is a repository that contains case studies written about and by projects and program lessons learned at Johnson Space Flight Center.
Case Studies illustrating the experiences of MSFC project leaders, program managers, scientists, and engineers are shared through the NASA LLIS system and on MSFC’s ExplorNet site addressing such topics as design decisions, launch commit decisions, project team dynamics, program planning and execution, and overcoming impediments to innovation.
Two primary case studies are found here: 1) The Safety and Mission Assurance Focus provides important information, reminders, tips and guidance on various SMA topics for specific audiences within the SMA community, and 2) the System Failure Case Studies examines failures of complex, coupled systems both within and outside NASA. Filtered by case study type […]
