The Academy’s second Masters with Masters event featured Dr. John Mather and Dennis McCarthy, who shared critical learning experiences related to the Cosmic Background Explorer, the James Webb Space Telescope, and other complex science projects. John Mather and Dennis McCarthy sat down with the Academy’s Ed Hoffman in the NASA Auditorium on October 28, 2009 […]
By Ed Hoffman “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” —Charlie Parker In the early 1980s, I was involved in conducting a study to determine the effectiveness of a new initiative promoting a more participative organization, interviewing employees and managers.
Don Cohen, Managing Editor Every NASA project is a collaboration. A few, like the microsatellite development at Marshall Space Flight Center (see “FAST Learning”), are carried out by a small group at one location, but still depend on the cooperative efforts of engineers, scientists, and managers with different skills and responsibilities.
By Laurence Prusak Who was the last person who knew everything? That’s right, there was a time when this was a legitimate question for pundits in Europe and the early American republic.
By Bo Schwerin Imagine you are about to be dropped in the middle of a remote, inhospitable region—say the Kalahari Desert.
By Don Cohen Josh Simpson has been creating planets for more than three decades. The cover photo of this issue of ASK shows detail from one of them.
NASA in the News NASA Public Affairs Officer Josh Byerly talked with ground-support personnel and mission officials in Russia and Kazakhstan as they prepared for the landing of Expedition 27 on May 23, 2011.
On June 23, 2010, as part of the Systems Engineering Leadership Development Program graduation event, NASA invited industry speakers who excel in innovation to address NASA’s emerging leaders. James Crocker, Vice President & General Manager, Sensing and Exploration Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., spoke about his experience in space science, planetary exploration and remote […]
In its kickoff event, Academy Director Dr. Ed Hoffman moderated a discussion between Scolese and Ryschkewitsch in the NASA Auditorium on April 24, 2009 before a live audience that included members of the NASA First program. The session was taped by NASA TV and will be released as a web-based video on the Academy’s website […]
