While NASA needed to study Columbia to learn exactly what happened to the shuttle and return to flight, the agency also knew that the artifacts had a lot to teach others. NASA started the loan program, so others could study her: learning her lessons and advancing science for future generations. This is Columbia’s continued mission.
Apollo 10 Panel discussion conducted at JSC’s Building 2 Teaque Auditorium.
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.
This event was filmed at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 30, 2018 with Brian Kelly, Wayne Hale, Michael Leinbach, Mark Kirasich, Kathy Lueders, and Pat Forrester.
A look at the history, evolution and future of Extravehicular Activity, also known as spacewalking. Hear from NASA team members who took part in making this complex task a reality, enabling some of the most impressive and daring achievements in the history of human spaceflight.
By any measure, the X-31 was a highly successful flight research program at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, now the Armstrong Flight Research Center. It regularly flew several flights a day, accumulating over 550 flights during the course of the program, with a superlative safety record. And yet, on Jan. 19, 1995, on the very […]
NASA’s mission-critical work is performed by project teams. The following projects are featured in this session: Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III, and Astro-H.
In this VPMC, we discussed NASA’s implementation of the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act (PMIAA), NASA’s High-Risk Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and examples of project management tailoring.
Andrew Chaikin discusses the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that led to Apollo’s worst day—the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in January 1967—as well as those modes of behavior that allowed NASA to recover from the accident and accomplish Apollo 11’s lunar landing in July 1969.
