The near-Earth space environment is becoming increasingly cluttered with hazardous man-made debris. The collision between an operational Iridium spacecraft and a derelict Russian spacecraft in February 2009, which in turn generated hundreds of thousands of additional hazardous debris, highlighted the need for effective orbital debris mitigation measures. For thirty years the NASA orbital debris program […]
Predicting the future is easy — people do it all the time. Predicting it with accuracy, however, is much harder, as they generally get it wrong. As Yogi Berra observed, “The future ain’t what it used to be!” Predicting space has proven to be challenging, even for the most visionary people. Wernher von Braun’s fifty-year […]
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 Five underlying rules are critical to ignite the American innovation engine, according to MIT President Susan Hockfield.
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD) should undertake periodic assessments to correct parts quality problems in their programs, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO).
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 Ten years ago this month, Genesis launched to discover the origin of our solar system. Three years later, it had an unexpectedly rough return in the Utah desert.
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 Surviving the third costliest hurricane to hit the United States reaffirmed a common lesson for NASA: in the event of an emergency, you’d better have a plan.
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 In a time of transition at NASA, Darius Yaghoubi wants to learn as much as he can.
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 The aerospace workforce saw more stability than change in 2011, according to two benchmark studies by Aviation Week.
August 30, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 6 Organizations that intend to succeed cant only rely on established experience. They have to allow for the creation of it.
