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Computer-generated image of Mars using 3D information from the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter, which was on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Need for Sustained Commitment Underscores Pathways to Human Space Exploration

Human space exploration speaks to a basic desire to explore and understand. Just as basic, says the National Research Council (NRC), is the need for ongoing support.

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The X-15A-2 in flight with ablative coating and additional external fuel tanks. Photo Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The X-15 Program Set a Record for Speed

On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight set a world speed record in an X-15 rocket plane. Minutes later, the aircraft landed charred and broken. 

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Knowledge 2020 Conference
Knowledge 2020 to be Held at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA Knowledge Points of Contact, and project and program practitioners are all coming together for a unique knowledge sharing and problem solving event at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), October 21st – 23rd, 2014.

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David Meza and a cluster of “Spacecraft” search. Image Credit: NASA / JSC Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer
On Developing Better Magnets for Finding Needles in Haystacks

When NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Ed Hoffman travels to NASA centers in support of APPEL project management and engineering courses, he often partners with the local CKO to facilitate a segment on finding knowledge at NASA.

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NASA Connect Home page. Image Credit: NASA
Tapping NASA’s Greatest Resource: Its People

NASA recently launched an online mentoring resource that takes much of the uncertainty out of making professional development connections.

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Team Aero-M with their competition hexacopter (pink), two additional hexacopters, and two quadcopters after the UAS Competition. From left to right: Adam Kimberlin, Chris Becker, Tiffany Russell, Jim Snoddy (mentor), Robert Parker, Garrick Merrill, and Peter Ma. Photo Credit: NASA
Expanding the Utility of UAVs at Marshall Space Flight Center

A year ago, six early-career engineers from Marshall Space Flight Center experienced success with their unmanned aerial vehicles. They haven’t stopped flying since. 

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Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, seen from Pioneer 11. Photo Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center
This Month in NASA History: A Lone Pioneer Paved the Way Past Saturn

On September 1, 1979, Pioneer 11 made history as the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Its journey paved the way for Voyager—but dashed hopes of finding life on Titan.

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An interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module and the "mailbox." The "mailbox" was a jerry-rigged arrangement which the Apollo 13 astronauts built to use the Command Module lithium hydroxide canisters to purge carbon dioxide from the Lunar Module. Lithium hydroxide is used to scrub CO2 from the spacecraft atmosphere. Since there was a limited amount of lithium hydroxide in the Lunar Module, this arrangement was rigged up using the canisters from the Command Module. The "mailbox" was designed and tested on the ground at the Manned Spacecraft Center before it was suggested to the problem-plagued Apollo 13 crewmen. Because of the explosion of an oxygen tank in the Service Module, the three astronauts had to use the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat." Photp Credit: NASA
Thinking Like a Five-Year-Old

There are actually several Tom and Jerry cartoons in which Jerry (the mouse) rescues a goldfish from Tom (the cat).  Inevitably, in one of these episodes, a fish bowl filled with water descends upon Tom’s head only to encase it.  

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Ed Hoffman, Mark Langley, and David Oberhettinger. Photo Credit: Department of Transportation (DOT)
PMI President Langley Visits the Federal Knowledge Management Community Meeting

On September 5, 2014, the Department of Transportation (DOT) hosted the 16th Meeting of the Federal Knowledge Community (FKMC) for a special meeting featuring the Project Management Institute’s President and CEO, Mark Langley.

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