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"The Nasa Decision-Making Environment
This research examines the decision-making environment within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In part, this examination is based on Case No. 25, The NASA Space Shuttle Disaster (Marx, Stubbart, Traub, & Cavanaugh, 1987, pp. 829-844).


Background
NASA is an organization that owes its beginning to a political crisis in the United States. Early Soviet space successes further fueled Cold War fears among the American population; fears that were maintained at high levels by American politicians at the best of times.


The success of the Soviet Sputnik program caused the American government to rush head-long and ill-prepared into a me too ..."

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In this article, the writer discusses becoming an aeronautical engineer.
The writer discusses that the aeronautical engineer is ultimately responsible for an aircraft's design and performance, making it one of the most exciting employment fields around. The writer looks at this field as a career direction and discusses salaries involved and promotions. The writer concludes that the feeling of watching an aircraft that you designed and helped to build take off has got to be something special, and well worth the effort it takes to get there.

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"There are no easy ways to earn promotions as an aeronautical engineer. Even being connected with someone is not likely to bring someone too much added responsibility; the stakes of the job are simply too high. Instead, hard steady work will lead to raises in pay and higher levels of responsibility (Education and Career). Responsibilities of higher level positions in aeronautical engineering could include being a project leader or even the supervisor of putting together a new aircraft, which would require the review and coordination of many different engineering teams' work (NASA). There is not always room for advancement to these positions, and most people in the field will not make it there. The only way to get to the top is to keep studying, and to work carefully and hard."

Tags:aircraft, pilots, plane, tests

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This paper offers an organizational assessment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The writer of this paper examines NASA's history and mission while also evaluating its goals and objectives. The paper also analyzes NASA's strengths and weaknesses while detailing the organization's strengths and weaknesses.

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This paper explains that Boeing, McDonald Douglas, Airbus, and Lockheed Martin, the present aircraft manufacturing industry major players, ensure that quality assurance is performed at each and every stage of the manufacturing process because the implication and cost of not doing so are enormous. The author points out that quality assurance is an important part of manufacturing spare parts for older planes and components for new airplanes. The paper relates that understanding variance and methods to control variance has helped the aerospace industry maintain high quality standards.

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"Quality-assurance issues made companies realize that they constantly had to improve the system in order to remain competitive and focus on their customer's needs. This requires long-term commitment from the organization's leaders. Manufacturers are increasingly relying on software solutions to manage and track their quality performance. Hamilton Sundstrand a supplier to Boeing was able to streamline and understand its processes using state of the art software and knowledgeable and trained workers. Understanding the importance of continuous improvement in the quality of the product can help organizations ensure that they will retain their market position and customer loyalty. Creating constancy of purpose towards improvement, strategy planning based on long-term goals of the organization can help focus the management's attention on quality issues. IAQG is also hoping that by identifying and conveying the best practices followed by industry leaders the industry as a whole can benefit."

Tags:workflow, competition, safety, parts, variance

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This paper explains that, in addition to his legendary transatlantic flight, Lindbergh introduced several innovations in cruise control technology as well as contributing to the development of long-range flight apparatus. The author mentions his work on an "artificial heart" and gives general biographical information.

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"Introduction


The deregulation of the airline industry in 1978 came about after decades of government imposed regulation that had been part of the airline industry since its inception. The deregulatory effort was part of a larger concern with government regulation in general and with controversies about perceived negative effects on competition in the airline industry of government regulation, which was seen as a growing thicket of regulations and controls that stifled competitive impulses and regulated nearly every aspect of the industry and its operations. Some saw this as a form of government micromanaging that was taking a toll, and deregulation was seen as a way of giving the industry over to those who had the highest stake in seeing it run properly, efficiently, and competitively--the airlines themselves."

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"The following research is on the subject of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Airlines in the United Stats are riding the crest of a wave of increased passenger travel the likes of which has not been seen since the introduction of the jet into commercial aviation in 1960. Passenger-miles are up, new orders for aircraft from both domestic and foreign manufacturers are up as the airlines replace their aging fleets and capitalize on new designs and new technology that allow them to fly more people on less fuel than ever before. And airline profits are up as well. To fly the new planes which carry people who have never flown before, the airlines are in a frantic scramble for new pilots, since it is also true that the "first generation" of World War II pilots is now retiring, and the airlines are wooing hundreds of pilots a month away from the ... "

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"Space by James Michener deals with the United States' space program, from its earliest explorations with rockets after World War II to the Viking probes of the other planets in our solar system. As with all of Michener's books, Space is well-researched, and the reader can be educated about the many facts of astronauts and space shuttles while being entertained by the fictional characters that the author has created.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has its birth as the second World War is concluding: Michener traces the steps of German scientist Wernher Von Braun (one of the "real" people in this book) and young rocket maker Dieter Kolff as they flee from Hitler's Nazi regime. Hitler had hoped that experts like Von Braun would provide instruments to help him win the war, but there was a defection, and Stanley Mott, an American..."

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"This research examines the deregulation of the air transportation industry in the United States. Specifically, this research addresses the question: Has airline deregulation been good or bad for the consumer?

The deregulation of the commercial airline industry in the US was initiated by the Carter Administration in 1978. The momentum was building for deregulation of the airline industry in the face of resistance by most of the minor and some of the major American airline companies. The primary reason for the unenthusiastic response to deregulation, on the part of the smaller airlines, was a fear that the larger airlines would (1) enter the profitable medium- ... "

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This paper provides an application oriented state-of-the-art review of smart materials and magnetostrictive actuators in aeronautical design. Smartness describes self-adaptability, self-sensing, memory and multiple functionality of the materials or structures. The paper shows that these characteristics provide numerous possible applications for these materials and structures in aerospace, manufacturing, civil infrastructure systems and biomechanics. Active vibration and acoustic transmission control, active shape control and active damage control are some of those areas which have found attractive applications for smart materials and structures. Examples of specific applications are micro-positioning, vibration isolation, fast acting valve and nozzles, transducers, luxury car shocks, and active engine mounts in aircrafts. The paper shows that system integration, mass and energy consumption reduction, elimination of moving parts in actuators and collocation between actuator and sensor are some of the benefits of using smart materials. Those smart materials covered in this paper are primarily piezoelectric, shape memory alloys and magnetostrictive.

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"Along these lines there is growing interest in the design and control of smart structures systems with embedded sensors and actuators that provide enhanced ability to program a desired response from a system. The ability to sense real-time conditions, i.e., the factors that contribute to turbulence and therefore resistance in a given environment, would be welcome and useful. Applications of interest include: (a) smart helicopter rotors with actuated flaps that alter the aerodynamic and vibrational properties of the rotor in conjunction with evolving flight conditions and aerodynamic loads; and (b) smart fixed wings with actuators that alter airfoil shape to accommodate changing drag/lift conditions. In these and other examples, key technologies include actuators based on materials that respond to changing electric, magnetic, and thermal fields via piezoelectric, magnetostrictive and thermo-elasto-plastic interactions."

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