Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 11-26-2008 01:02 PM
Issue 32 of NASA's Academy Sharing Knowledge (ASK) magazine is a special edition for the 50th anniversary of the space agency. Among its articles:
Early Lunar Missions: A Memoir by J.D. Burke
A JPL project manager in the early sixties, Burke recalls the space race with the Soviets.
NASA's First Scientist-Astronauts by Joe Kerwin
NASA's first physician-astronaut describes the Skylab experiments that studied the effects of weightlessness.
The Apollo Era: Working at Marshall in the Sixties by Glenn A. Robinson, Jr.
A discussion of Wernher von Braun's management style and the power of learning by doing.
Leadership, Teamwork, and Focus: Viking's Landing on Mars by Kerry Ellis
Managerial skill and innovation made Viking's technical achievement possible.
Teaching Geology to Apollo Astronauts by Gary Lofgren
To prepare for their work on the moon, Apollo astronauts did many field exercises and built a common language with geologists.
Lessons from Shuttle Development by Jim Odom
The transition from Apollo to Space Shuttle offers lessons for today's transition to Constellation.