BYChris Dannen Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM
A mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May.
If you're wondering whether NASA has some kind of built-in tweet software on ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Sep 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM
The Hubble Space Telescope has always been an amazing machine, but it was recently made even more amazing with some repairs and optical upgrades in daring spacewalks. The first pics are out now, and they're stunning.
The HST was ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spacewalked to the Hubble Telescope and kitted it with a new camera. Should everything go right--and so far, the mission has been a success--the Hubble should be good until ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Aug 3, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Next Wednesday, if everything goes according to plan, NASA will launch a teacher into space. Not just any teacher: the woman who was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher headed for space, who was killed in the ...READ»
BYCharles Fishman Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Aug 27, 2003 at 11:20 AM
The report from the commission investigating the space shuttle Columbia accident is a classic autopsy of workplace delusion. It's not just that NASA played self-defeating budget and bureaucratic games, management at the space program ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 55 Fri Feb 13, 2009 at 8:38 AM
The Washington Post recently created an essential visualization of the stimulus bill before Congress. Granted, it was created before the trimming that just occurred in the House, but it's illuminating nonetheless (see a portion ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 52 Thu Dec 18, 2008 at 6:31 AM
The end of an era is rapidly approaching: Soon the skies will shake no more to Space Shuttle stacks rocketing into orbit, and the world's first real space ship will go gently into retirement. It's so soon, in fact, that NASA's beginning to plan ...READ»
So said Jay Fishman, chairman and CEO of The St. Paul Cos, earlier this week at Wharton's annual Leadership Conference. "It's too easy (and too wrong) to abandon the heritage of some companies."
How true. Yet, so many new leaders ...READ»
BYRusty Weston Relevancy Score: 46 Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Until recently none of my babysitters made much news. I think one turned out to be a minor league baseball player. The others are mostly forgotten.
I want to give a shout out today to Barbara Radding Morgan, a babysitter, brilliant ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 39 Thu Oct 20, 2005 at 7:02 PM
Given the events of 2005 –- killer hurricanes, radical insurgencies, melting ice caps, threats of pandemics –- the theme of this year’s PopTech!, “Grand Challenges,” has a “ripped from the headlines” urgency.
Stepping ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 37 Thu Oct 20, 2005 at 11:48 AM
Given the events of 2005 – killer hurricanes, radical insurgencies, melting ice caps, threats of pandemics – the theme of this year’s PopTech!, “Grand Challenges,” has a “ripped from the headlines” urgency.
Stepping ...READ»
BY Polly LaBarre Relevancy Score: 36 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM
Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 32 Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 10:50 AM
The last week and a half has marked a handful of notable business-, leadership-, and innovation-related anniversaries:
The Ford Motor Co. incorporated June 16, 1903.
Amelia Earhart began her first trans-Atlantic flight June 17, ...READ»
Profile of a Change Leader: Tony
CancelosiAs the CEO of Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind (CLB) in Washington, DC, Tony Cancelosi brings more than 30 years leadership experience from the
computer and software industry to his ...READ»
