Bruce Banerdt is a planetary geophysicist, working in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1977. He has participated in numerous planetary flight-instrument teams, including the Mars orbiter laser altimeter on Mars Global Surveyor, the synthetic aperture radar on the Magellan mission to Venus, the seismometer on the NetLander mission […]
Ellen Stofan is vice president of Proxemy Research and honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. She conducts research on the geology of Venus, Mars, Titan, and Earth. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1991–2000), she was chief scientist of NASA’s New Millennium Program, the deputy project scientist on the Magellan […]
Bruce Cantor is a senior staff scientist at Malin Space Science Systems, which he joined in 2000. He is principal investigator of the Mars Atmospheric Global Imaging Experiment on the joint NASA–European Space Agency 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission, a co-investigator on the Mars color imager experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission, […]
Noel Hinners will rhapsodize on the major challenges he had as a center director in enabling the science and engineering implementation of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). The internal Goddard Space Flight Center environment for COBE was unusual in that it was managed by the Engineering Directorate to provide essential hands-on training to the engineers. […]
The near-Earth space environment is becoming increasingly cluttered with hazardous man-made debris. The collision between an operational Iridium spacecraft and a derelict Russian spacecraft in February 2009, which in turn generated hundreds of thousands of additional hazardous debris, highlighted the need for effective orbital debris mitigation measures. For thirty years the NASA orbital debris program […]
Predicting the future is easy — people do it all the time. Predicting it with accuracy, however, is much harder, as they generally get it wrong. As Yogi Berra observed, “The future ain’t what it used to be!” Predicting space has proven to be challenging, even for the most visionary people. Wernher von Braun’s fifty-year […]
In order for NASA to succeed with its very demanding and complex missions, the organization has to be very good at sharing learning and collaboration among the centers. ASK Magazine Editor Don Cohen, discusses the importance of collaboration, communication, trust, and sharing expertise within the organization. For more project management and engineering learning content, visit […]
This popular talk is now available in its full-length version! Steve Goo describes the Boeing Program Management Best Practices, an integrated management system the company has refined over the past ten years to enable programs of all sizes achieve high levels of performance and customer satisfaction. He discusses the importance of staying focused on the […]
Why is it so important for organizations to collaborate? Is it for better products? You simply don’t have a choice? You’ll fail without it? Synergies? How about this: it’s where all of your money is spent. Laurence Prusak is the Editor-in-Chief of ASK Magazine. He is also a researcher and consultant and was the founder […]
