Business Management
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Strategic Plan
2011 NASA
www.nasa.gov
The future of aeronautics and space exploration is built on sound strategic planning and the commitment of our employees and partners. The images on the cover show activities that contribute to achieving our strategic goals, artist concepts of future missions or innovative ideas, and our education efforts. Aerospace engineer Rod Chima works with the Large-Scale Low-Boom supersonic inlet model in the Glenn Research Center’s 8' x 6' Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign partnered with Glenn to test the model with micro-array flow control to try to alleviate the thunder-like sonic booms produced by supersonic aircraft. (Credit: NASA/B.R. Caswell) On May 17, 2010, NASA Astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-132 mission specialist, participates in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. Dr. Heather Oravec, a postdoctoral researcher at the Glenn Research Center, works with a new device developed there that tests lunar soil strength. Called a vacuum bevameter, the device measures the characteristics of lunar soil simulants, or lunar regolith, in a vacuum chamber at specific temperatures while accounting for lunar gravity. The system may be used to predict strength characteristics of lunar regolith in previously unexplored regions of the Moon. (Credit: NASA/M.M. Murphy, Wyle Information Systems, LLC) Leland Melvin, Associate Administrator for the Office of Education and former astronaut, high-fives fifth- through 12th-graders at the Minority Student Education Forum. The forum was part of our Summer of Innovation initiative and the Federal Educate to Innovate campaign to increase the number of future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. (Credit: NASA/C. Huston) Our heavy-lift rover Tri-ATHLETE, or All-Terrain Hex-Legged
Strategic Plan
2011 NASA
www.nasa.gov
The future of aeronautics and space exploration is built on sound strategic planning and the commitment of our employees and partners. The images on the cover show activities that contribute to achieving our strategic goals, artist concepts of future missions or innovative ideas, and our education efforts. Aerospace engineer Rod Chima works with the Large-Scale Low-Boom supersonic inlet model in the Glenn Research Center’s 8' x 6' Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign partnered with Glenn to test the model with micro-array flow control to try to alleviate the thunder-like sonic booms produced by supersonic aircraft. (Credit: NASA/B.R. Caswell) On May 17, 2010, NASA Astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-132 mission specialist, participates in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. Dr. Heather Oravec, a postdoctoral researcher at the Glenn Research Center, works with a new device developed there that tests lunar soil strength. Called a vacuum bevameter, the device measures the characteristics of lunar soil simulants, or lunar regolith, in a vacuum chamber at specific temperatures while accounting for lunar gravity. The system may be used to predict strength characteristics of lunar regolith in previously unexplored regions of the Moon. (Credit: NASA/M.M. Murphy, Wyle Information Systems, LLC) Leland Melvin, Associate Administrator for the Office of Education and former astronaut, high-fives fifth- through 12th-graders at the Minority Student Education Forum. The forum was part of our Summer of Innovation initiative and the Federal Educate to Innovate campaign to increase the number of future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. (Credit: NASA/C. Huston) Our heavy-lift rover Tri-ATHLETE, or All-Terrain Hex-Legged