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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Shuttle program"”.
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Analyzing risk and catastrophic accidents: using LOPA and human factors to improve safety in generic projects
… accidents. The financial industry and the Space Shuttle program will be considered to produce the required analysis. LOPA models will be created to expose shortcomings in the failed projects and provide lessons to be learned in order to avoid future disasters. This research will provide a unique …
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Damage Detection Methodologies For Structural Health Monitoring of Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels
… the orbiter since the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program. After the Columbia accident, the COPVs were re-examined and different studies (e.g. Laser profilometry inspection, NDE utilizing Raman Spectroscopy) have been conducted and can be found in the literature. To explore some of the …
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Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement after Apollo
… political approval for its costly human space programs, I argue that maintaining legitimacy in light of shifting social attitudes, political priorities, and divided interest in space flight required NASA to reconsider how to serve and engage external publics vis-à-vis its next major human space …
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A Model-based Methodology for Strategic Reuse of Legacy Designs in Space Mission Architecting
… systematic approach for conducting technical and programmatic analyses for informing legacy reuse decisions in the early design phases of a mission. LDRM incorporates design reuse best practices and process improvements derived from a survey of industry practitioners. The resulting procedure is …
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HEXANE : architecting manned space exploration missions beyond low-earth orbit
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program and the cancellation of the Constellation Program, NASA's long-term designs for manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit remain indefinite. Although progress has been made in plans for operations on orbit, the capabilities gap for manned spaceflight beyond …
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On Being A NASA Flight Surgeon
… 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 provided the survey for completion. 35 of the 47 flight surgeons contacted completed the survey. Key findings of the survey included …