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Some of the stars in the image are 800 billion years old and 13,000 light years away from Earth. Photo Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech
Academy Bookshelf—Making a World of Difference: Engineering Ideas into Reality

A new book from the National Academy of Engineering celebrates 50 years of innovation by engineers from a range of disciplines, including aerospace and systems engineering.

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Artist’s concept of the Orion service module and crew module in flight. Image Credit: NASA
Expanding Human Space Exploration through Global Cooperation

As Orion readies for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in December, it looks forward to a future fueled by international collaboration.

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Astronauts conduct scientific research during Spacelab’s first mission. From left to right: Mission Specialist Robert Parker, Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, Mission Specialist Owen Garriott, and Payload Specialist Ulf Merbold. Photo Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: An International Initiative Expanded the Frontiers of Science

Thirty-one years ago this month, the space shuttle Columbia hosted the first reusable, crewed on-orbit research laboratory: Spacelab.

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Masters with Masters: Oberhettinger and Bell
Masters with Masters: The Ongoing Evolution of Lessons Learned at NASA

How can NASA capture, share, and leverage its wealth of lessons learned to enhance the effectiveness of future work? Two Chief Knowledge Officers explored the issue.

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Engineers finalize the installation of the world’s largest heat shield on Orion. Photo Credit: NASA/Daniel Casper
An Uncrewed Mission Designed to Advance Human Space Exploration

The upcoming Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) will leave Earth without a crew, but everything about the spacecraft is engineered to facilitate human spaceflight.

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Masters with Masters: Oberhettinger and Bell
Masters with Masters: The Ongoing Evolution of Lessons Learned at NASA

How can NASA capture, share, and leverage its wealth of lessons learned to enhance the effectiveness of future work? Two Chief Knowledge Officers explored the issue.

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Masters with Masters 22 (David Oberhettinger and Michael Bell)

On July 24, 2014, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Chief Knowledge Officer Michael Bell and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Chief Knowledge Officer David Oberhettinger sat down with NASA Chief Knowledge Officer Ed Hoffman for a Masters with Masters discussion about the evolution of knowledge capture at the agency. The event, “Twenty-Five Years of Transforming Lessons Learned […]

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Artist’s concept of the Space Launch System rocketing into space. Image Credit: NASA / MSFC
Young Professionals Explore the Challenges Ahead in Getting Humans to Mars

On October 3, 2014, young professionals in the international space community sparked a conversation about the future of human space endeavors.

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A U.S. Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper inside, as his fellow team members bring up the floatation gear to be attached to the spacecraft. The main chute floats at top left, and the ejected reserve chute floats at the lower right of the spacecraft in the green dye area. Photo Credit: NASA
From Spaceman to Geronimo

The latest hit song by the Counting Crows (after a six-year gap) now rides the airway, and in one line of its Beatlesque word associating imagery, Adam Duritz jubilantly sings a verse, launching with a bracing “Spaceman!” and ending with a crooning “Geronimo!”

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