08.14.08 - Apollo Veterans Bridge Generation Gap to Mentor Young Engineers
Mentors try to keep the young engineers from making the same mistakes they made. + Read More | |||
08.13.08 - Max Launch Abort System Development
The Wallops Flight Facility supports the NESC with the development of a composite crew module for the Exploration Orion spacecraft. + Read More | |||
10.10.07 - NASA Studying Possible Wing Problem
NASA is studying a possible problem with the thermal shielding on Discovery's wings that could force a delay in this month's launch. + Read More | |||
08.16.07 - Carbon Composite Materials Might Not Be So Bad for Spacecraft...
For the first time ever, the Space Shuttle will fly with an all-composite "carrier" in its cargo bay. + Read More | |||
02.21.07 - Failure Leads to Success
When the Columbia space shuttle broke apart above Texas in February 2003, no one knew that it could one day result in success. NASA astronaut Dr. Charles Camarda, however, believes the tragedy has provided both current and future engineers with a motto to live by - where there is failure, there is knowledge and understanding that doesn't come with success. + Read More | |||
02.05.07 - NASA Developing Composite Orion Shell to Aid Future Exploration
NASA's Engineering and Safety Center is developing all-composite designs for the Orion crew vehicle pressure shell to gain in-house experience for future spacecraft. + Read More | |||
01.25.07 - Aging Aircraft Conference Planned
NESC Director Ralph R. Roe Jr. will attend the 10th conference on Aging Aircraft, scheduled for April 16-19 in Palm Springs, Calif. + Read More | |||
01.01.07 - NASA Reaching Out to Space Aces
The agency's engineering and safety center, based at Langley, makes sure that an expert is never more than a phone call away. + Read More | |||
10.24.06 - Space Exploration: Filling Up the Canvas
Experts in structures, materials and other disciplines in the aerospace sciences, along with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center that is hosted at Langley, helped return the Space Shuttle to flight after the Columbia accident. + Read More | |||
10.11.06 - NASA Announces New Cleveland Safety Center
The center will complement the NASA Engineering and Safety Center based at Langley. + Read More | |||
09.08.06 - NASA delays shuttle launch once again
The shuttle Discovery's 2005 launch was plagued by similar problems with the engine cut-off sensors. The root cause of Discovery's problem was never identified, according to a NASA Engineering and Safety Center analysis in 2005. + Read More | |||
07.14.06 - NASA clears key hurdle as foam fears ebb
"We've been really impressed as a team with the way they were able to analyze the issues they needed to resolve," adds Ralph Roe, director of NASA's Engineering and Safety Center at the agency's facilities in Langley, Va. + Read More | |||
05.08.06 - Hydrazine Tanks for Jason-2 Satellite Will Be Modified
... fuel tanks could leak and pose a danger to satellite integration teams prompted a detailed review of the system by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC ... + Read More | |||
01.19.06 - Remarks by NASA Administrator Griffin at the National Society of Professional Engineers Professional Development Conference
To provide a further independent engineering assessment capability, we have a group at the Langley Research Center called the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), comprised of some of the most talented engineers in the Agency. + Read More | |||