William H. Gerstenmaier, former Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, provides strategic direction for NASA’s human exploration of space and programmatic direction for the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft.
Large, complex missions have long development timeframes that often increase the challenges associated with budget, schedule, risk and reviews. In this VPMC session, associate administrators of two NASA mission directorates will share lessons learned from large projects.
This event was filmed at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 24, 2017 with Nicole Mann, Glynn Lunney, Walter Cunningham, Gary Johnson, and Frank Borman. Panel Introductions: 6:48 Visit us: https://appel.nasa.gov/
Jose Perez-Morales, Vehicle Assembly Building Element Manager, discusses various lessons learned including co-location for good team communication and planning your designs with an eye on the fabrication process to save yourself time and mistakes.
Jose Perez-Morales, Vehicle Assembly Building Element Manager, discusses several of the VAB operations that are performed with the ground support equipment to help with processing launch vehicles
Jose Perez-Morales, Vehicle Assembly Building Element Manager, talks about the various types of professionals that work at NASA and the exciting work being done.
Jose Perez-Morales, Vehicle Assembly Building Element Manager, talks about the work being done in the Vehicle Assembly Building with the new SLS vehicle and how it is very different than shuttle. He describes the various platforms that are built to help service the space vehicle.
In addition to exploring how the work of ARMD positively impacts the American public, we looked specifically at the challenges, accomplishments, and lessons learned of the ERA project and ARMD’s Airspace Technology Demonstrations (ATD) project.
Victor Alvarez, GSDO Logistics Acquisition Lead, describes the crucial learning that comes from system failures and how it can help to save on future logistics costs and minimize part failures.
