April 3rd, 2008 - VOL. 1 Issue 3
In This Issue
Message from the Academy Director
We asked roughly seventy senior practitioners who attended the Academy’s April 2007 Masters Forum to answer the question, “How do you learn to do your job?” Their answers provided a wealth of insight about learning at NASA.
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Features
Five Questions: Former NASA Administrator Dr. Robert A. Frosch
ASK the Academy posed five questions to former NASA Administrator Dr. Robert A. Frosch.
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Inside the Academy: Foundations of Aerospace at NASA
If you’ve been at NASA five years or less, Foundations of Aerospace at NASA is for you.
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PM Challenge 2008 Roundup
More than 1200 civil servants, contractors, and members of the aerospace community attended PM Challenge 2008.
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NASA on the Hill
Administrator Griffin Testifies on FY 2009 Budget
NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin told a House subcommittee that the President’s FY 2009 budget request for NASA represents “a substantial step forward in responding to the recommendations of the National Research Council’s first decadal survey of Earth Science.”
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Leadership Bookshelf
Joseph Nye’s The Powers to Lead
What is the relationship between leadership and power? It depends on the leaders, the followers, and the context, according to Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
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View from the Outside
ESA Launches Jules Verne
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched Jules Verne, the first of its new line of cargo-hauling Automotive Transfer Vehicles (ATV), into low earth orbit from the Guiana Space Center in Korou, French Guiana, on March 9, 2008.
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This Month in NASA History
STS-76
On March 24, 1996, during Atlantis shuttle mission STS-76, astronaut Shannon W. Lucid boarded Russian space station Mir for a five-month stay, marking her place in history as the first U.S. woman to fly aboard the space station.
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In the Current Issue of ASK
+ Leading Your Leaders
by Wayne Hale
+ Dawn: Cooperation, Not Control
by Todd May
+ The Astronaut Glove Challenge
by Peter Homer
