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Masters with Master 8 (Sustainability in Government)

The eighth Masters with Masters event brought together three master practitioners to share their perspectives and stories about organizational sustainability at NASA Headquarters on March 1, 2010. The event featured Olga Dominguez, NASA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Strategic Infrastructure; Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive with the White House Council on Environmental Quality; and […]

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Tommy Holloway: Mission and Flight Operations

As NASA approaches the final flight of the Space Shuttle, it is timely to reflect upon the many important lessons learned from the formulation, development, and operation of the Space Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle represented a dramatic departure from the launch and space vehicles of the preceding Apollo era, with a new focus on […]

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Shuttle and Station: A New Beginning with New Challenges (Tommy Holloway)

Undoubtedly the greatest technical and engineering achievement of the Space Shuttle is the assembly and development of the International Space Station (ISS)—whose entire design, elements, and systems were designed for launch, assembly, and servicing by the shuttle. Indeed, following first element launch—the Russian-launched FGB module that established the initial foundation for station—the Shuttle manifest has […]

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Shuttle Program: Formulation, Development, and Operations – Five Lessons Learned (Tom Moser)

As NASA approaches the final flight of the Space Shuttle, it is timely to reflect upon the many important lessons learned from the formulation, development, and operation of the Space Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle represented a dramatic departure from the launch and space vehicles of the preceding Apollo era, with a new focus on […]

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Sreedhara Panicker Somanath: Indian Space Research Organization Overview

Throughout most of NASA’s history, international collaboration has played an important role in both its science and human spaceflight programs. This collaboration has become the new norm in space, as more than sixty international space agencies increasingly work together in a broad range of space-related activities. Nearly two-thirds of NASA’s space science missions now involve […]

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Shinobu Doi: Japan’s Major Contributions to the ISS

Throughout most of NASA’s history, international collaboration has played an important role in both its science and human spaceflight programs. This collaboration has become the new norm in space, as more than sixty international space agencies increasingly work together in a broad range of space-related activities. Nearly two-thirds of NASA’s space science missions now involve […]

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Russel E. Rhodes: Shuttle Launch Development and Operations

As NASA approaches the final flight of the Space Shuttle, it is timely to reflect upon the many important lessons learned from the formulation, development, and operation of the Space Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle represented a dramatic departure from the launch and space vehicles of the preceding Apollo era, with a new focus on […]

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Rupert Gerzer: German Space Life Sciences Program

Throughout most of NASA’s history, international collaboration has played an important role in both its science and human spaceflight programs. This collaboration has become the new norm in space, as more than sixty international space agencies increasingly work together in a broad range of space-related activities. Nearly two-thirds of NASA’s space science missions now involve […]

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ATV #1 “Jules Verne” Control Centre (Lionel Baize)

Throughout most of NASA’s history, international collaboration has played an important role in both its science and human spaceflight programs. This collaboration has become the new norm in space, as more than sixty international space agencies increasingly work together in a broad range of space-related activities. Nearly two-thirds of NASA’s space science missions now involve […]

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