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More broadly, the report also determined the contributing causes of the accident. Most salient was the failure of both NASA and its contractor, Morton Thiokol, to respond adequately to the design flaw. The Commission found that as early as 1977, NASA managers had not only known about the flawed O-ring, but that it had the potential for catastrophe.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/ dʒ ə ˈ k oʊ b i /; [2] German:; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) [a] was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.
The NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) is a widely used, [1] subjective, multidimensional assessment tool that rates perceived workload in order to assess a task, system, or team's effectiveness or other aspects of performance (task loading).
Connecting NASA's plethora of problem solvers through the common thread of climate science will be critical to the mission of the agency's brand new chief scientist and senior climate advisor ...
Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...
Japie van Zyl (February 24th 1957 [1] - 26 August 2020) was a Namibian electrical engineer working for NASA. [2]Van Zyl was born in Outjo, Namibia.After matric he attended Stellenbosch University where he obtained an honours degree in electronic engineering cum laude in 1979 .
NASA also launched a number of different satellites to study Earth, such as Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) in 1960, which was the first weather satellite. [30] NASA and the United States Weather Bureau cooperated on future TIROS and the second generation Nimbus program of weather satellites.
Additionally, during his tenure at NASA, he became a leader in wearable robotics and exoskeletons for spaceflight, rehabilitation, and abled body human performance augmentation. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Radford is active in the areas of electric motor design towards robotics and electric cars, winning awards for his research in variable flux technology. [ 9 ]