ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 Up is up and down is down. That much is easy for a pilot flying by the clear light of day. But at night or when a fog rolls in, a pilot must rely on instruments for guidance.
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 Blue Origin, the private space program funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, executed its first low-altitude test launch from its West Texas spaceport on November 14, 2006.
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 By Chris Scolese This issue examines some of the key elements of NASA’s early culture. How did a government agency go from inception to the moon landing in just over ten years? What can we learn from this as NASA faces the […]
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 On January 6, 1998, the unmanned Lunar Prospector embarked on a one-year lunar polar mission. Its primary objective was to ascertain whether or not water ice was buried inside the lunar crust.
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 U.S News & World Report, in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government named Charles Elachi of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as one of “America’s Best Leaders” for 2006. Other honorees include Warren Buffet, Sandra […]
ASK OCE — January 12, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 1 A Gallup poll found strong support for the Vision for Space Exploration, with a two-thirds majority (66%) of Americans voicing support for the program.
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 It can be a very uncomfortable feeling to sit in a project team staff meeting and realize that several of your team members view things very differently than you do. The glue that’s missing is team situation awareness, according to Bill O’Keefe of […]
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 Teledyne Brown Engineering and Barrios Technologies received the George M. Low Award, NASA’s highest honor for quality and technical performance in its contractor community, in a ceremony at PM Challenge 2007 in Galveston, Texas.
ASK OCE — February 23, 2007 — Vol. 2, Issue 2 When experts get together to talk risk management, it becomes clear that there are many perspectives on the elusive question of balance. Boeing’s Joy Bryant, Johnson Spaceflight Center’s (JSC) John Shannon, and NASA Headquarters’ Greg Robinson and John Tinsley sat down with moderator Mike […]
