NASA intensifies probe into Columbia failure

Columbia and Challenger: organizational failure at NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)—as the global leader in all areas of spaceflight and space science— is a unique organization in terms of size, mission, constraints, complexity and motivations. NASA’s flagship endeavor—human spaceflight—is extremely risky and one of the most complicated tasks undertaken by man. It is well accepted that the tragic destruction of the Space...

Multimodality Tissue Identification for Neurosurgery: The NASA Smart Probe Project

Parallel Associative Search by Use of a Volume Holographic Memory p. 78 Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array p. 84 Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback p. 85 Image Compression and Coding Moving Object Tracking in Video p. 95 Assessing the Performance Effects of Data Compression for SAR Imagery p. 102 Adaptive Image Coding with Robust Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization p. 109 A Const...

A Probe into the Concept of Friendship in the Qur’ān

The topic of human relationships—be they positive and sympathetic, or negative and hostile—receives a great amount of attention in the Qur’ān. Human beings need to be aware of both their friends and their enemies in order to learn how to engage with both groups, how to make additional friends and defend themselves from harm caused by enemies, and, if possible, turn these enemies into friends. T...

Perspective: Columbia/HCA: A Failure Of Leadership

Wi thin a confus ing health care marketplace, sometimes illusions are more comforting than the realities they mimic. Capitalism itself is not a pretty sight. What Schumpeter called “creative destruction” sounds much better than it looks, when one grasps the realities of the ruined lives, fortunes, and franchises involved. Yet in evaluating the legacy of a company like Columbia/ HCA, separating ...

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