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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 28 2005, 10:06 PM
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Let's start this listing with Dr Bruce MURRAY:
http://www.jaxa.jp/news_topics/interview/v...part2_p1_e.html |
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Dec 28 2005, 10:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Very interesting articles. It is about the philosophy and attitude against the failure between the occident and Japan.
Rodolfo |
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Dec 29 2005, 01:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Dec 28 2005, 11:31 PM) quote in reply! removed Rodolfo: It's more than that, in the sense that it's also about management of scientific programmes in general, but what it certainly is, is a very clear way forward for JAXA ('two thirds of all Mars missions fail'). Sadly, Hayabusa doesn't get a mention - I hope that Japan doesn't go into denial about what was (note the past tense) a spectacular mission. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Dec 29 2005, 03:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Bob: I am sure that the japanese culture is very perfecionist and have catch up mind. During the decade 70-80, they copies the occident technology (radio, TV, camera, autos, etc.) , study them and perfection them and they make them with even much higher quality than the counterparts.
In analogy, I think they will excel if they copies the Russian, American, European and others space technologies and they will most probably make them an even much better the counterpart such as the Hayabusa which has nearly almost obtained their very ambitious objectives with automated navigation to catch Hayabusa, employing a very economic ion engine (cheaper than a good steak!!!), land autonomously on Hayabusa (no one knows for a long seconds what is happening that). Rodolfo |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 31 2005, 12:52 PM
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Well I started this thread to point out that 99% of the JPL Engineers & Scientists are very approachable; certainly nowadays with e-mail…
But as a 10-year old kid I used to write to NASA and got really good replies from Dr Charles HALL (Pioneer), Dr Gerry SOFFEN (Viking), Dr Bruce MURRAY (JPL director) and Dr Edward STONE (JPL director)... http://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/exhibits/directors/index.htm How is Your experience with this ? |
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Jan 23 2006, 06:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Far Travelers: The Exploring Machines by Oran Nicks
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1985024813.pdf Warning: 44.3 MB -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 7 2006, 07:37 PM
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Just noted this edition of design news featuring Brian Muirhead, it goes a stagering price !
http://cgi.ebay.com/CALTECH-MARS-MADNESS-R...1QQcmdZViewItem |
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Feb 11 2006, 09:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
On this topic, Brian Muirhead has co-authored a very good mars book titled "Going to Mars: The Stories of the People Behind NASA's Mars Missions Past, Present and Future"
more at this listing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067102796...ce&n=283155 |
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Feb 12 2006, 04:06 PM
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Jun 2 2006, 02:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Griffin visits JPL
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=20785 An excerpt: In the future he expects JPL to continue to attract new business by competing for missions, but, "If I think JPL is in danger of falling below having the right amount of work to cover the JPL staff, then I will do as I have done at other places � I will find you a mission. If you can win enough to keep up the level you're at, you don't need me to do anything." However, he discouraged JPLers from going after major new work that would drive the lab's workforce beyond the current level. "If you kill more than you can eat, I'll probably ask you to send some of that somewhere else." "A gain in people at one center is a loss in people at another center, or it is a removal of dollars from industry into the federal civil service," said Griffin. "That's not acceptable. And it's not acceptable to be moving people and moving significant numbers of jobs from one center to another." In response to a question, Griffin also said he hopes Congress will not restore cuts he made in the proposed fiscal year 2007 budget for scientific research and analysis. "I hope Congress won't restore it, because it will come at the expense of a mission," he said. "The budget I put forward is the best budget I can do given all the constraints I have. If you push on the bean bag somewhere, it will pop out somewhere else. There will be other unhappy people, they will just be in other zip codes." Griffin cited the importance of placing humans and cargo in low- Earth orbit "an essential first step" in the next stage of exploration. "It's got to be done right," he said. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 2 2006, 05:04 PM
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Well I started this thread to point out that 99% of the JPL Engineers & Scientists are very approachable; certainly nowadays with e-mail… But as a 10-year old kid I used to write to NASA and got really good replies from Dr Charles HALL (Pioneer), Dr Gerry SOFFEN (Viking), Dr Bruce MURRAY (JPL director) and Dr Edward STONE (JPL director)... http://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/exhibits/directors/index.htm How is Your experience with this ? I've had good luck with email to Ed Stone...but then again he was my PhD advisor. :-) I worked in Ed's Space Radiation Lab from 1978 to 1981, and it was a great experience. He is a rare example of a man who is a good person, a great scientist, and a great manager of complex tasks. The Voyager Jupiter and Saturn encoutners both happened while I was there, and it was amazing to watch the orchestration of fantastically complex operations. I worked on another project (a big satellite called HEAO-C). When a paper for the HEAO project was published, the whole team would meet for a couple days to go over the paper line by line. Ed would ask, "Could this be made more understandable by a scientist who is not a specialist in cosmic rays?". And his grant proposals! How do you get funding for $100 million projects? By writing a grant proposal that is a higher quality scientfic document than most finished journal papers! Beautiful explainations of what is known, what is not known, why is it important, what is the calculated error of measurments, etc, etc. |
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Sep 26 2006, 02:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
JPL Director Dr. Charles Elachi recently spoke at Cornell University:
http://cornellsun.com/node/18553 To quote: He began with an old Theodore Roosevelt quote: “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” In this spirit, Elachi reaffirmed why astronomy is important and necessary. He asked the audience, “What if our ancestors had never explored? Never left their caves? Never experimented with fire?” This is a primary motivation for science in general, but Elachi went further and said, “Astronomy holds the real possibility of answering the biggest questions: What is this place? How did it happen? How common are we? Why us? Why now?” After answering these big picture questions, we end up learning more about ourselves. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 11 2007, 02:21 PM
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Russian engineers and policy makers of the Space age:
http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Biographies.htm |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 20 2007, 04:22 PM
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Jan 21 2007, 12:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 8-May 05 Member No.: 381 |
Well I started this thread to point out that 99% of the JPL Engineers & Scientists are very approachable; certainly nowadays with e-mail… But as a 10-year old kid I used to write to NASA and got really good replies from Dr Charles HALL (Pioneer), Dr Gerry SOFFEN (Viking), Dr Bruce MURRAY (JPL director) and Dr Edward STONE (JPL director)... http://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/exhibits/directors/index.htm How is Your experience with this ? It's always been highly variable with me. I got much better replies from JPL scientists in the 1970's, with the project scientist for Mariner Venus/Mercury (can't remember the name) and Dr. Conway W. Snyder, Viking Orbiter scientist. They not only answered questions, but sent sizeable packages of papers, photos, etc. To expand the topic slightly, I was a teenager when Apollo 17 launched, and before the mission I decided to write to every science instrument team on the mission. I think I got addresses from Aviation Week and Space Technology ads. Some corporations didn't reply at all, some sent a press photo and small description, and a few were extremely generous. Bendix sent a multihundred page manual on the Apollo 17 ALSEP, plus several smaller goodies. But John Hopkins University APL gets the grand prize for generosity. They built the UV Spectrometer for the Command Module SIM bay. They sent a complete set of blueprints plus a copy of the Critical Design Review! I could have built my own. Ah, the days before ITAR made everyone paranoid about sharing technical details. |
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