NASA budget focuses on exploration

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Alltech Symposium focuses on sustainability

In the general session, Declan Coyle from Ireland looked at building high performance teams. In this he stressed the importance in difficult times of having inspired leaders who had vision – people who ‘saw it and were it’. These people must have high visions and be focused on them. He highlighted the importance of selfimage, goals and values and, interestingly, highlighted how children aged fo...

Surface Systems R & D in NASA ’ s Planetary Exploration Program

In the last several years, since the successful 1997 deployment and operation of the Sojourner rover on the surface of Mars, NASA has entered a new era of space exploration, where the emphasis is on in-situ exploration of planetary surfaces by means of a new class of robotic systems. For example, advanced sample return rovers with demonstrated technology far beyond Sojourner are in preparation ...

Determining Desirable Cursor Control Device Characteristics for NASA Exploration Missions

A test battery was developed for cursor control device evaluation: four tasks were taken from ISO 9241-9, and three from previous studies conducted at NASA. The tasks focused on basic movements such as pointing, clicking, and dragging. Four cursor control devices were evaluated with and without Extravehicular Activity (EVA) gloves to identify desirable cursor control device characteristics for ...

Large-Scale Knowledge Sharing for NASA Exploration Systems

NASA exploration initiatives encompass many disciplines within multiple organizations. Exchanging information without loss of meaning is a critical challenge. Differences in vocabularies are embedded in the variety of tools and systems used. This paper describes a large-scale project called NASA Exploration Initiative Ontology Models (NExIOM), which is meeting the challenge through a semantic a...