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December 29, 2010 Vol. 3, Issue 12   The leaders of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) took part in the sixth Masters with Masters event.

December 29, 2010 Vol. 3, Issue 12   Johnson Space Center Flight Director Heather Rarick has joined the Academy for a yearlong assignment.

December 29, 2010 Vol. 3, Issue 12   Members of the current SELDP class spent a half-day at Google’s Mountain View campus as part of a week-long learning event at Ames Research Center in November. The site visit was a leadership benchmarking exercise, in which officials from Google shared about their vision for the organization, […]

The greatest technical and engineering achievement of the Space Shuttle is the assembly and development of the International Space Station (ISS). Recorded at Masters Forum 19: http://go.nasa.gov/1rtYeE8.

NASA Chief Engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch talks about the difference between meeting minimum requirements and setting new standards for excellence. (Transcript) Chris makes a point about MODIS. It’s got kind of an interesting legacy because that instrument performed so much better than the minimum that were the specs. It’s now the gold standard. Because it performed […]

Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Mather offers advice to scientists about the importance of persuasion. (Transcript) If you were to ask me how should a principal investigator prepare for life, I’d say, number one, read and write. Study reading and writing and communication because that’s the essence of how we get to do what we want […]

Dennis McCarthy, former deputy project manager for the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), describes organizational structures and processes as “chicken”—no match for strong leadership. Recorded at Masters with Masters Unexpected Insights. (Transcript) I could come back in here now and tell you, 7120, I can’t get this done. But I gave a talk recently somewhere in […]

Lynn Cline recounts how her background as a French major in college led to a career that has included serving as lead U.S. negotiator for the International Space Station and Deputy Associate Administrator of Space Operations. (Transcript) Well I came in – actually came in just for what was supposed to be a three month […]

The shuttle program represented a dramatic departure from the launch and space vehicles of the preceding Apollo era. Recorded at Masters Forum 19: http://go.nasa.gov/1rtYeE8.