By Bill Townsend As Deputy Director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, I was responsible for overseeing the launch of the Aura spacecraft from atop a Boeing Delta II rocket out of Vandenburg Air Force Base in July 2004.
By Ray Morgan The largest of all flying pterodactyls, the Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, had no tail.
By Scott Tibbitts It was fourteen years ago, and I remember it well. It seemed that the right hand didn’t know what the left was doing. It was crazy.
By W. Scott Cameron I have noted during my career that there is a never-ending amount of rules and restrictions forced upon project managers under the guise of helping them “be successful” in managing their projects.
By Colby Africa I had been working for two years as the technical Product manager for a large software company, when their partner company gave me call.
By Marty Davis About a year and a half ago, I sent all of my people — the support contractors and the civil servants alike — to risk management training.
By Thomas Sutliff When conducting physical science research in space, the smallest vibration or disturbance can disrupt sensitive experiments.
By Dr. Alexander Laufer This summer, the Knowledge Sharing Initiative will be celebrating its fifth birthday For almost twenty years, the main thrust of my research has been to gain an understanding of the elements that make for successful project management.
By Ed Hoffman Stream-of-consciousness commentary on the hectic life of a NASA manager. I have hated writing the column for this issue. This is unusual since I tend to look forward to writing for ASK.
