APPEL Director Dr. Ed Hoffman moderated a special international Masters with Masters on October 3, 2012 with Dino Brondolo, Director of Infrastructure Programs at Thales-Alenia Space Systems in Torino, Italy, and Alan Thirkettle, formerly the head of Human Spaceflight Projects Department at the European Space Agency (ESA) prior to his retirement in 2008. The conversation […]
With over 100 years of combined aerospace experience, Jack Boyd and Hans Mark have seen it all—and today looks different than the past. On August 13, 2012, the Academy’s Masters with Masters series featured aerospace heavyweights Jack Boyd and Hans Mark at Ames Research Center. Boyd, senior advisor to the NASA Ames Center Director and […]
On August 13, 2012, the Academy’s Masters with Masters series featured aerospace heavyweights Jack Boyd and Hans Mark at Ames Research Center. Boyd, senior advisor to the NASA Ames Center Director and 65-year veteran of Moffett Field, served as the former NASA associate administrator and acting deputy center director at Ames. Mark, former NASA Deputy […]
The early Soviet probes to the moon, Mars, and Venus were a product of dogged persistence, according to Dr. Wesley Huntress. On March 26, 2012, Huntress, former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science, spoke on the topic of Soviet robotic exploration to the moon, Mars, and Venus at the quarterly NASA History Office brown bag […]
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 […]
