By Ed Hoffman Project-based organizations like NASA have a paradox embedded in their DNA: the tension between the organization’s need for stability and the inherent uncertainty of complex projects.
Don Cohen, Managing Editor Everyone who is familiar with NASA missions knows that most of them involve collaboration among many organizations and individuals.
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: “My star-trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 […]
By Haley Stephenson Using a wiki platform, the NASA Software Engineering Working Group has set a new precedent for collaboratively authoring, reviewing, and enabling interactivity for handbooks at NASA.
By Kerry Ellis Astronaut Don Pettit began his career with NASA seventeen years ago and has since flown on three spaceflight missions.
Long-time NASA practitioners Jack Boyd and Hans Mark offer their insight on leadership and investing in the next generation.
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain only had one career plan: become an astronaut. While that plan didn’t come to fruition, he’s happy with his backup job.
Andrew Cheng, former project scientist for the historic Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, shares the story of the first mission to orbit (and eventually land on) an asteroid.
ASK Magazine Editor Don Cohen discusses the importance of collaboration, communication, trust, and sharing expertise within NASA.
