In May 2010, the TRaiNED team completed its Mission Readiness Review (MRR). The question on everyone’s mind: Are you ready to go fly? Learn more about Project HOPE: APPEL Website – http://appel.nasa.gov/hands-on/hope/ ASK Magazine Part I – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGs07 ASK Magazine Part II – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGvsI
After going through the full life cycle of the TRaiNED mission, what has the team learned? Learn more about Project HOPE: APPEL Website – http://appel.nasa.gov/hands-on/hope/ ASK Magazine Part I – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGs07 ASK Magazine Part II – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGvsI
The TRaiNED team has completed its Critical Design Review (CRD) and is closing in on a launch date. Learn more about Project HOPE: APPEL Website – http://appel.nasa.gov/hands-on/hope/ ASK Magazine Part I – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGs07 ASK Magazine Part II – http://go.nasa.gov/1mJGvsI
In November 2006, then–NASA Chief Engineer Chris Scolese brought together an advisory group of aerospace veterans to think about creative ways of giving young NASA employees the skills they will need to lead future projects and programs. Gus Guastaferro, an invited guest of this Management Operations Working Group, suggested developing a hands-on project that would […]
Pietro N. Bernasconi is a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and is currently the observatory principal investigator (PI) and mission scientist of the Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory balloon program (STO). He obtained a doctorate in natural sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1997. He has worked at […]
G. Scott Hubbard has been an innovator and leader in science, technology, and management for more than thirty years, including twenty years with NASA. He currently is a professor in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Hubbard was the director of Ames Research Center. In 2003 he […]
Joseph A. Dezio came to the Explorers Program as the deputy program manager in November 2001 to support the numerous Explorer missions’ activities and principal investigators. Since arriving at the Explorers Program Office, he has supported the successful launches of the Swift, Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, Aeronomy of Ice in […]
The SMD program scientist (PS) is the senior NASA scientist responsible for a flight program or project’s science content to carry out an SMD science investigation. The PS is SMD’s interface with the project scientist or the principal investigator (PI) for an Announcement of Opportunity selected mission. The PS monitors science management program execution and […]
Performing to committed cost has forever been a space and Earth science goal, along with attaining technical and scientific goals. Emphasis on the cost element, however, has greatly increased over the past decade. This includes enhanced external oversight of NASA’s cost performance by the Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budget, and several Hill […]
