By Matthew Kohut The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is home of the world’s largest laser. With 192 laser beams that can deliver more than sixty times the energy of any previous laser system, NIF represents a significant step in enabling the study of high-energy density science. The design and construction of this unique, highly complex […]
By Russel Rhodes The Centaur program, which developed a high-energy second-stage rocket in the early sixties, marked NASA’s first effort to use large quantities of liquid hydrogen.
By Naoki Ogiwara In Europe and Japan, “Future Centers” feature spaces designed to enhance creative thinking.
By Katrina Pugh and Jo Ann Endo “Jamming” is an effective technique for sharing organizational knowledge. What do you do when you have valuable knowledge spread among multiple people in multiple organizations, and they don’t consider themselves experts?
By Carol Anne Dunn, Carlos Calle, and Richard LaRoche To learn more about managing lunar dust, NASA and a simulation technology company pool their expertise. A major problem facing manned or unmanned missions to the moon is lunar dust.
NASA’s ASK Magazine gives program and project managers, engineers, and scientists a way to share expertise and lessons learned with fellow practitioners. This is only one way ASK helps share knowledge as part of NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership.
By Don Cohen In the summer and fall of 2010, the world followed the story of thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and celebrated their successful rescue in October.
By Ed Hoffman Sometimes organizational “support” kills good new ideas. Entrenched ways of doing things and bureaucratic caution can and do discourage innovation in organizations, but even organizational support for new ideas can be a mixed blessing.
NASA in the News NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way.
