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By Robert D. Braun Now that NASA is headed back in the direction of becoming a space flight development agency, the Agency’s need for highly capable space systems engineers is greater than it has been since the end of the Apollo program.

The Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), Great Lakes Biomimicry (GLBio), and NASA, presented the first annual National Biomimicry Summit and Education Forum for Aerospace. VIBE (Virtual Interchange for Bio-inspired Exploration) was introduced by GRC, a sustainable, cross-geographical, 24×7 online workspace. A design project was created based on the themes explored during the summit and asked 880 […]

  By Steven J. Dick NASA’s founding document, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, specifically charged the new agency with eight objectives, including “the establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful […]

By Matthew Kohut When Johnson Space Center’s Matt Lemke showed up for work as the project manager of the space-to-space communications system at the end of 1994, he looked forward to leading a team of NASA designers on the biggest project in his division.

Future space communications will be more flexible, scalable and affordable, thanks in part to an integrated architecture.

March 28, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 3   As NASA quickly approaches a workforce transformation, a movement has surfaced to not only rethink how the agency shares what it knows, but where.

The NRC Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable (STIGUR) convenes senior-most representatives from industry, universities, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other government agencies to define and explore critical issues related to NASA’s space technology research agenda that are of shared interest; to frame systems-level research issues; and to explore options for public-private partnerships. This […]

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10   Project managers need the right resources — including the talent — at the beginning of the project, not the end.

NASA and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum convened a panel of experts to discuss the impact of solar weather on space exploration as well as Earth-based activities.