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NPP Satellite at the Ball Aerospace facility.
Government Brief: GAO Assesses Earth-Observing Satellites

July 31, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 7   The next generation of environmental and weather satellites requires robust risk management, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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Billows of smoke and the water near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida capture the brilliant light of space shuttle Discovery's lift-off on the STS-119 mission.
Academy Bookshelf: Judgment Calls

July 31, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 7   Organizations make good decisions in a variety of ways, according to Tom Davenport and Brook Manville.

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Dr. William H. Pickering (left), Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presents Mariner spacecraft photos to President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964.
History Brief: The Politics of Mars

July 31, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 7   “Scientists may tell us where to go, but politics will tell us how fast we’re going to get there,” said Dr. Harry Lambright about the politics of Mars.

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Launched last month, NASA's Landsat 7 spacecraft now orbits planet Earth. Looking down from an altitude of 700 km, Landsat 7 can map the planet's surface in visible and infrared bands and resolve features 30 meters across or smaller. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Landsat Turns 40

July 31, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 7   NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) celebrated 40 years of Landsat at the Newseum.

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This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007
On the Cover (ASK 47)

This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007, produced using model output from the joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II, or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model to synthesize satellite […]

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In This Issue by Don Cohen
In This Issue (ASK 47)

Don Cohen, Managing Editor   In his “From the Academy Director” column, Ed Hoffman argues that political and social skills are essential to carrying out ambitious projects.

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From the Academy Director: Projects Built Around People and Networks

By Ed Hoffman   What is the most likely culprit in failures to meet grand societal challenges? How do we understand and address the increasing complexity of missions? To rephrase those questions in more general terms: What poses the greatest risk to projects?

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The Knowledge Notebook by Laurence Prusak
The Knowledge Notebook: The Real Value of Knowledge

By Laurence Prusak   The question I most often hear when I speak to people about how to work with knowledge is some variation of “How can we measure the value of knowledge activities or projects?

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ASK Interactive
ASK Interactive (ASK 47)

  NASA in the News The nation’s space exploration program took a critical step forward after a successful technical review of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket that will take astronauts farther into space than ever before.

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