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Masters with Masters: Oberhettinger and Bell
Masters with Masters: The Ongoing Evolution of Lessons Learned at NASA

How can NASA capture, share, and leverage its wealth of lessons learned to enhance the effectiveness of future work? Two Chief Knowledge Officers explored the issue.

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Engineers finalize the installation of the world’s largest heat shield on Orion. Photo Credit: NASA/Daniel Casper
An Uncrewed Mission Designed to Advance Human Space Exploration

The upcoming Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) will leave Earth without a crew, but everything about the spacecraft is engineered to facilitate human spaceflight.

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Masters with Masters: Oberhettinger and Bell
Masters with Masters: The Ongoing Evolution of Lessons Learned at NASA

How can NASA capture, share, and leverage its wealth of lessons learned to enhance the effectiveness of future work? Two Chief Knowledge Officers explored the issue.

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Artist’s concept of the Space Launch System rocketing into space. Image Credit: NASA / MSFC
Young Professionals Explore the Challenges Ahead in Getting Humans to Mars

On October 3, 2014, young professionals in the international space community sparked a conversation about the future of human space endeavors.

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A U.S. Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper inside, as his fellow team members bring up the floatation gear to be attached to the spacecraft. The main chute floats at top left, and the ejected reserve chute floats at the lower right of the spacecraft in the green dye area. Photo Credit: NASA
From Spaceman to Geronimo

The latest hit song by the Counting Crows (after a six-year gap) now rides the airway, and in one line of its Beatlesque word associating imagery, Adam Duritz jubilantly sings a verse, launching with a bracing “Spaceman!” and ending with a crooning “Geronimo!”

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Computer-generated image of Mars using 3D information from the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter, which was on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Need for Sustained Commitment Underscores Pathways to Human Space Exploration

Human space exploration speaks to a basic desire to explore and understand. Just as basic, says the National Research Council (NRC), is the need for ongoing support.

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The X-15A-2 in flight with ablative coating and additional external fuel tanks. Photo Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The X-15 Program Set a Record for Speed

On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight set a world speed record in an X-15 rocket plane. Minutes later, the aircraft landed charred and broken. 

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Knowledge 2020 Conference
Knowledge 2020 to be Held at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO), NASA Knowledge Points of Contact, and project and program practitioners are all coming together for a unique knowledge sharing and problem solving event at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), October 21st – 23rd, 2014.

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David Meza and a cluster of “Spacecraft” search. Image Credit: NASA / JSC Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer
On Developing Better Magnets for Finding Needles in Haystacks

When NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Ed Hoffman travels to NASA centers in support of APPEL project management and engineering courses, he often partners with the local CKO to facilitate a segment on finding knowledge at NASA.

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