Organization: HQ

By Russel Rhodes   The Centaur program, which developed a high-energy second-stage rocket in the early sixties, marked NASA’s first effort to use large quantities of liquid hydrogen.

By Naoki Ogiwara   In Europe and Japan, “Future Centers” feature spaces designed to enhance creative thinking.

By Katrina Pugh and Jo Ann Endo   “Jamming” is an effective technique for sharing organizational knowledge. What do you do when you have valuable knowledge spread among multiple people in multiple organizations, and they don’t consider themselves experts?

By Carol Anne Dunn, Carlos Calle, and Richard LaRoche   To learn more about managing lunar dust, NASA and a simulation technology company pool their expertise.   A major problem facing manned or unmanned missions to the moon is lunar dust.

NASA’s ASK Magazine gives program and project managers, engineers, and scientists a way to share expertise and lessons learned with fellow practitioners. This is only one way ASK helps share knowledge as part of NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership.

By Don Cohen   In the summer and fall of 2010, the world followed the story of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and celebrated their successful rescue in October.

By Ed Hoffman   Sometimes organizational “support” kills good new ideas. Entrenched ways of doing things and bureaucratic caution can and do discourage innovation in organizations, but even organizational support for new ideas can be a mixed blessing.

NASA in the News   NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way.

The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth.