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Going Up

By Freddie Douglas III After a long day of travel, I found myself in a hotel elevator. I had recently graduated from NASA’s Accelerated Learning Option (ALO) at MIT, and I was proudly wearing my new school T shirt and baseball hat.

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Marbles for the Imagination

By Jack Shue To fill the need for engineers and scientists of the future, we at NASA need to start attracting youths to these fields now.

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End-to-End Commitment

By John Newcomb Probably one of the toughest, most gut-wrenching decisions I have ever witnessed on a project was the one involving the end-to-end test for the Viking lander.

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What GOES Around, Comes Around

By Rick Obenschain I was managing the Earth Observing Systems (EOS) platforms project at Goddard Space Flight Center, and I wasn’t looking for a new job.

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The Journey Back

By Rudy Aquilina We had stepped outside the hangar at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for the return of Columbia, which was carrying our flight experiments.

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Small Wins

By Dr. Alexander Laufer While it might not seem so radical these days to see the words “story” and “business” in the same sentence, that certainly wasn’t the case when I set out to put together my first collection of business stories.

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From the APPEL Director: So, Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?

By Ed Hoffman As a graduate student at Columbia University, one afternoon I decided to ask my advisor, Warner Burke, for help in finding an internship.

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In This Issue: Oh, Develop

By Todd Post Stories in ASK Magazine demonstrate that career development is rarely something successful project managers consider just a phase of their career.

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ASK Talks with Dennis Grounds

  After being a project manager of the Human Research Facility for six years, what brought you to Headquarters?

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