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On Being A NASA Flight Surgeon
… on a cohort of flight surgeons working for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) between the years of 1981 and 2011. This time frame represents the period known as the Shuttle Era. 51 NASA flight surgeons served operationally in this role, and 47 of them were contacted and …
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Planning the NASA site: community participation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.
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Accidents, engineering and history at NASA: 1967-2003
… National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suffered three fatal accidents: one in the Apollo program and two in the Space Transportation System (the Shuttle). These were the fatal fire in Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) in 1967, the explosion of the Solid Rocket Booster in STS-51L …
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Application and management of commonality within NASA systems
… across systems. Through commonality, NASA has the opportunity to develop, produce, and operate systems more efficiently, thus reducing their life cycle costs. However, the benefits gained from commonality greatly depend on how commonality is managed, i.e. how successfully the …
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Submerged-Membrane Bioreactor for the Treatment of NASA Wastewater
… to examine the treatment efficiency of a NASA wastewater ersatz. The bioreactor utilizes both anoxic and aerobic processes for carbonaceous and nitrogenous species removal. While complete biological nitrification proved difficult due to free ammonia inhibition, by acidifying reactor feed …
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Design for Decline: Executive Management and the Eclipse of NASA
… to: provide a more adequate explanation of NASA's decline than currently exists; gain some insight into the management of research and development organizations within the federal government; and determine the utility of using different theoretical perspectives for exploring how …
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Innovation pathways in technology intensive government organizations : insights from NASA
… process histories of instances of innovation in NASA's science directorate - including more than 100 hours of interviews, 150 archival documents and 2 months of informal observations - this thesis demonstrates how, in practice, the pathways taken by new capabilities do not respect these …
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Federal investment in aeronautical research & development : analyzing the NASA experience
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987.
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Strategic planning and integration of NASA Earth Science Technology Program
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.
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Design of a battery charger for the NASA EOS space platform
A battery charger design for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Space Platform has been developed and tested. This thesis discusses the design of the battery charger power stage and its current and voltage control loops. The charger was designed to minimize the mass and to maximize the …
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Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement after Apollo
Historical accounts depict NASA's interactions with American citizens beyond government agencies and aerospace firms since the 1950s and 1960s as efforts to 'sell' its human space flight initiatives and to position external publics as would-be observers, consumers, and supporters of such …
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Silent Dissent: The Effect of Structural Secrecy on Professional Communication at NASA
<p>This dissertation examines the creation and legitimization of knowledge through an examination of Dr. Warner von Braun’s weekly communications with his department heads during the Apollo project. My researched is focused on an archive of memos from the Marshall Space Flight Center during the …
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Testing in NASA human-rated spacecraft programs : how much is just enough?
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2003.
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Hardware and software control for the NASA EOS satellite power system testbed
For the implementation of the NASA EOS testbed programmable operations, a control/data acquisition system has been designed, implemented, and tested. The work is focused mainly on the hardware design/build of the custom interface board and software development for real-time control and data …
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Testing of a Magnetically Levitated Rocket Thrust Measurement System Demonstrator for NASA
Existing thrust measurement systems (TMSs) at NASA Stennis Space Center use strain gauges and flux plates to measure forces produced by a test article. Alignment and calibration can take two weeks or more every time a piece of hardware or test article is changed. Cross axis loading is also …
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A prototype fault diagnosis system for NASA Space Station Power Management and Control.
… Prototype serves as a proposed training tool for NASA to use in the training of new personnel who will be designing and developing the NASA Space Station expert systems.
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OmicsSpace: A Proposed Omics Data Plan for NASA Human Research and Clinical Investigations
… future. I plan to propose a program plan for how NASA could capture operationally relevant omics data from astronaut experiments over time. The program plan will contain recommendations on how to scope a genetic repository in the future at NASA that can be used for future research, occupational …
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Knowledge management : obstacles and opportunities-- what can NASA learn from the consulting industry?
… at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA.). NASA is facing the possibility of losing fifty percent of its civil service workforce through retirement over the next five years. Capturing and storing technical and institutional knowledge for future use will help to assure the success and …
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The origin, evolution and operation of the NASA contractor source evaluation board process.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1966. M.S.
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How Geographic Proximity to the Kennedy Space Center Effects Attitudes Relating to NASA
… situation for American space exploration and NASA. Given the budget situation, it may be beneficial for NASA to look to its existing geographic footprint for areas of deeper support to provide elected leaders with an electoral justification to support NASA missions. The areas with the greatest …
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