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The art of stepping back: What NASA’s Space Shuttle can teach innovators today

In a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, the team outlined NASA’s non-linear design approach. While ...

NASA Selects Targeted Convergence Corporation for SBIR Contract to Advance Mission Design Modeling

NASA has awarded a competitive SBIR research contract to Targeted Convergence Corporation (TCC) to explore new ways mission teams can solve some of the most complex design and modeling challenges in ...
SpaceRef

NASA Virtual Student Engineering Competition Announces Winners

The top six teams competing in the first “RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge” showcased their creative ideas for a panel of expert judges, fellow teams and others on April 14, 2011.
University of Wyoming

Space Cowgirls Engineering Team Represented UW in NASA Micro-g NexT Design Challenge

Juneau Paulsen (far right) and Ellie Taplin (left of Paulsen), both UW mechanical engineering majors, help direct the diver in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) from the NBL control room. The ...
SpaceNews

NASA Glenn Selects Organizations for Engineering Design Challenge

NASA’s Glenn Research Center recently selected 13 after-school programs to implement science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) content using NASA’s Engineering Design Challenge: Powered and ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA plans to place a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

NASA is no longer talking about lunar bases in abstract terms. The agency has set a concrete goal to have a working nuclear ...
University of Delaware

Making moon rocks

As aspirations for lunar colonization grow, so does the need to understand the moon's freshwater reservoirs. Researchers are interested in determining if these hidden natural resources could serve as ...
SpaceRef

NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Web Seminar

As part of a series of electronic professional development experiences for educators, the NASA Explorer Schools project and the National Science Teachers Association are hosting a 90-minute live ...
Independent Record

Educators from across state in Helena for NASA engineering design workshop

In our lifetimes, NASA could be sending astronauts to Mars. Maybe even setting up a colony there. But first, NASA needs better space suits and landing gear. Where to turn for help? The next generation ...
Science Friday

Use Engineering To Design A Solar Space Probe

This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! It’s a big universe out there. Even as we explore the Sun and nearby planets, scientists and engineers are looking for ways to study ...
GovCon Wire

NASA Selects 13 Vendors for $175M Open Innovation Services 2 Contract via On-Ramp Process

NASA has announced 13 additional awardees selected through an on-ramp process for the second iteration of the Open Innovation Services contract vehicle. The NOIS2 program is a multiple-award contract ...