Organization: HQ

By Jennifer Cole Our team was working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on one of those rare projects that is just big enough.

By Daniel Lockney For decades now, NASA has been sending spacecraft throughout the solar system. Once in space, many of these craft use advanced cameras to create images of corners and crevices of our universe never before seen and then transmit these pictures back to laboratories on Earth, where scientists then ask: What exactly are we […]

By Lucas Steinhauser and Scott Thon On February 20, 2008, a single Standard Missile 3 (SM3), fired from the USS Lake Erie in the Pacific Ocean, shot down a National Reconnaissance Office satellite that was falling out of orbit and potentially posing danger to people around the globe.

By Dustin Gohmert As Orion seat subsystem manager, I had been working with contractor Lockheed Martin for approximately a year and a half on the design of an astronaut seat for the new crew exploration vehicle, Orion.

By Toshifumi Mukai The hope in international projects is that one plus one will equal three—that the diverse resources, skills, and technologies of the partners will add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Christyl Johnson has been assistant associate administrator in the Office of the Administrator at NASA since fall of 2005. She joined NASA in 1990, designing and building laser systems for remote sensors at Langley Research Center.

By William H. Gerstenmaier, Scott S. Goodwin, and Jacob L. Keaton Before the English explored Australia in the 1600s, it was held as an indisputable fact in Europe that all swans were white.

By Tony Kim What would you do if you were a scientist and had just been told by the safety authority that you can only search above the ocean for the science data that you can only get over land?

By Frank J. Cepollina From its ignominious beginnings to its triumphant redemption, the story of the Hubble Space Telescope is known around the world. What is less well known is the story behind the story—the elements that made Hubble’s ultimate success possible.